It appears “there was somebody [who] dropped the ball.”

“The huge thing,” she said, is the recognition by the church of “the inviolable dignity even of guilty people who have done terrible crimes.”

“For Hispanics, whatever the priest says goes. But that’s not right. The priest is not God. Nobody is above God.”

Pope Francis has revised the church’s catechism to state that the death penalty is no longer admissible.

“We join with all those demanding the end of a culture that ignores or tolerates sexual abuse of Catholic sisters or any other adult or minor perpetrated by those in positions of trust in the church community.”

Catholic moral theologians from around the globe conclude an international ethics conference with calls for prophetic action.