It appears “there was somebody [who] dropped the ball.”
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Albany bishop says laypeople should investigate misconduct by U.S. bishops
Bishop Edward Scharfenberger said, “we have reached a point where bishops alone investigating bishops is not the answer.”
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The psychological insights of St. Ignatius Loyola
William Watson, S.J., of the Sacred Story Institute in Seattle discusses the intersection of personal narrative and Ignatian spirituality.
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Pittsburgh bishop says report will be ‘sad, tragic description’ of events
“I continue to be deeply concerned about the victims and the ongoing pain and suffering they endure,” Bishop Zubik said in the letter, read at all Masses.
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Sister Helen Prejean’s ‘happy day’ as Pope Francis revises teaching on the death penalty
“The huge thing,” she said, is the recognition by the church of “the inviolable dignity even of guilty people who have done terrible crimes.”
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Is there a sexual abuse reckoning coming for the Latino church?
“For Hispanics, whatever the priest says goes. But that’s not right. The priest is not God. Nobody is above God.”
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U.S. Catholic bishops, advocacy groups welcome change on death penalty
Pope Francis has revised the church’s catechism to state that the death penalty is no longer admissible.
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Pope tells young Jesuits to be courageous, prayerful, creative
The pope met Aug. 1 with about two dozen European Jesuits currently involved in the order’s formation process. They had been talking about communication and one asked Pope Francis how they can meaningfully communicate with unemployed young people when, as Jesuits, they will never know what it means to be without a job.
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The sex abuse scandal and the debasing of Catholic language
Holiness is incumbent upon all, but we also must strive to embrace the challenge to reappropriate the language of the evangelical counsels, now recast as evangelical imperatives.
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Sister Helen Prejean on Pope Francis’ revision of the death penalty teaching | DEVELOPING STORY
Sister Helen Prejean, an anti-death penalty activist and author of the book Dead Man Walking, joins Kevin Clarke to discuss Pope Francis’ revision of the death penalty teaching.