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September 2018

September 28, 2018

Where is McCarrick? Here. — UPDATED

This item was posted today, on the Archdiocese of Washington website: In late July 2018,...

September 26, 2018

‘Credibly accused’ Minnesota priest sues his accuser — and wins

This is something you don't hear about every day. From Minnesota Lawyer: In a man-bites-dog...

September 26, 2018

Being a Catholic journalist: ‘Are you still working for that evil organization?’

Some insight on the times we are living in, and the work some of us...

September 26, 2018

Former USCCB advisor reveals he was abused by priests, calls for end to ‘silence and secrecy’

From Crux: One of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s former closest collaborators and one of the U.S....

September 25, 2018

Francis admits scandals have driven young people from the Church

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=51&v=uuR3IwFSAqk Details: Pope Francis admitted on Tuesday that sex abuse scandals surrounding the Catholic Church...

September 22, 2018

Becoming a new priest in the middle of the scandal: ‘I wondered if I was in the right place’

A few days back, my friend Gary Zimak interviewed me for his radio show, and...

September 20, 2018

Auxiliary bishop voluntarily withdraws from public ministry ‘for what I failed to do’

Details: The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay has approved a request by retired auxiliary Bishop...

September 20, 2018

What happened when a priest revealed in a homily that he had been abused

From CNS: To be a voice for victims of clerical sexual abuse, Father Brendan McGuire...

September 15, 2018

A bishop’s act of contrition and humility — UPDATED

Photographer Michael Mickle captured this image and ones below, as Richmond's Bishop Barry Knestout took...

September 13, 2018

Bishop Bransfield resigns, Pope Francis orders investigation into allegations of sexual harassment

From The Washington Post: Pope Francis has ordered an investigation of Bishop Michael J. Bransfield...

September 12, 2018

Bombshell: German media reports on study citing thousands of abuse cases over decades

From Reuters: Roman Catholic clerics in Germany sexually abused thousands of children over a 70-year...

September 12, 2018

BREAKING: Pope calls world-wide meeting of bishops on abuse crisis

Details, from CNA: Pope Francis has called for all the presidents of the Catholic bishops’...

September 11, 2018

Wuerl tells priests he will meet with Pope Francis to discuss his resignation

From CNA: The Archbishop of Washington told priests Tuesday that he intends to meet with...

September 11, 2018

Gänswein on the abuse crisis: ‘The Catholic Church looks full of bewilderment at its own 9/11’

Details: The crisis of sexual abuse is “the Catholic Church’s September 11”. This was said by...

September 10, 2018

Cupich to seminarians: ‘We have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by’ sex abuse crisis

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic...

September 10, 2018

BREAKING: Pope’s council of cardinals says Vatican is preparing response to Viganò

From The Tablet in London: The Vatican is preparing to issue a response to an...

September 07, 2018

Confirmed: allegations about McCarrick were known by the Vatican in 2000

From CNS: A top official from the Vatican Secretariat of State acknowledged allegations made by...

September 06, 2018

Legatus announces it is putting its annual tithe to Holy See in escrow

Legatus is a large and growing lay organization of Catholic business people founded by Thomas...

September 06, 2018

‘Open your files’: Nebraska attorney general seeks abuse records from three dioceses

From The Omaha World-Herald: Open your files. This is the directive the Nebraska Attorney General’s...

September 04, 2018

Confirmed: Wuerl met with Pope Francis Thursday — UPDATED

From CNN: Pope Francis met with embattled Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington last Thursday in...

September 03, 2018

‘As a lay person and the father of young boys, I say: Never again.’

A Catholic blogger by the name of Steven O'Keefe put this account together, and it's...

September 03, 2018

The pope, sex abuse, and the story no one is talking about

Writer Michael Cook offers some welcome sanity in the middle of the never-ending McCarrick-Viganò-Francis-media merry-go-round,...

September 02, 2018

A pastor writes to his flock: ‘Let’s be honest, Satan loves this crisis.’

My friend Father Michael Duffy from the Diocese of Rockville Centre posted this letter in...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Questions about Pope Benedict, Viganò, McCarrick and those sanctions

Edward Pentin, who broke the story last week, adds this tidbit today about one of...

August 31, 2018

Cardinal Wuerl to his priests: ‘I now ask myself what is the way I can best serve this Church that I, too, much love’

The embattled cardinal archbishop of Washington sent the following letter to his priests, which was...

August 31, 2018

Canadian archbishop: ‘The Church is not this, OK! The Church is not the sum of our faults.’

From Canada's The Catholic Register newspaper: Even as he faces another sex abuse case in...

August 30, 2018

‘Love requires sacrifice. There are those among you who know the truth. Tell it now.’

Elizabeth Bruenig of The Washington Post describes her efforts to interview former Cardinal McCarrick—and says...

August 28, 2018

Carlo Maria Viganò: ‘The man who took on the pope’

That's how The New York Times describes Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in a new report out...

August 28, 2018

Tobin on Viganò: ‘I do think it’s about limiting the days of this pope…neutering his voice’

The New York Times has reaction to the recent bombshell—and some of the backstory behind...

August 26, 2018

Pope Francis: Viganò’s statement speaks for itself

From Catholic News Service: Pope Francis said Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's long document calling on...