Editorials
Zero Tolerance
When the U.S. bishops meet in Dallas, Tex., on June 13-15, the sexual abuse crisis will be at the top of their agenda.
Articles
Clericalism and the Sex Abuse Scandal
Clericalism in the Catholic Church is something like the pattern in the wallpaper: it’s been there so long you don’t see it anymore.
The American Church's Sexual Abuse Crisis
The clerical sexual abuse scandals in Boston and elsewhere have brought home how far the Catholic Church still has to go in receiving into its life the Second Vatican Council, nearly 40 years after th
Our Catholic Watergate
As revelations of new victims of clerical sexual abuse spill into the news daily, we must face one mare discomforting truth: this scandal has sobering generational overtones.
Exit, Voice and Loyalty in the Church
Disclosures about sexual abuse among priests and coverups by the hierarchy have elicited, at least in Boston, levels of lay dissatisfaction and anger that rival the response to Humanae Vitae, the birt
Books and Culture
Books
Edward Sorin arrived in the United States from France in 1841, 27 years old, three years ordained and the religious superior of a band of si
Books
As a failed coup attempt in December 2001 delivered yet another wound to Haiti, conventional wisdom again declared the Caribbean nation to b
Film
That delightful lull between the end of classes and the beginning of exams provided the perfect opportunity to catch up on movies missed dur
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The Word
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