The ongoing sexual abuse scandal involving the Rev. Marko Rupnik is another reminder of what the church needs to do to deal with this continuing plague.
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Friends and colleagues remember Richard Gaillardetz, theologian, mentor and witness
Friends and colleagues remembered Richard Gaillardetz, who died on Tuesday, as a perceptive theologian, mining in his talks, articles and books the ecclesiology of Vatican II and Pope Francis’ vision for the church. They also noted the powerful witness of his reflections on his final months of life.
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Baltimore’s Archbishop Lori: Bankruptcy was the only way to compensate abuse victims and continue our ministries
Chapter 11 reorganization will help the Archdiocese of Baltimore manage lawsuits from historic cases of child sexual abuse without abandoning its ministries.
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Permanently expand the child tax credit. It’s the pro-life thing to do.
The child poverty rate was cut almost in half after an expansion of the child tax credit. So why did Congress, including many in the pro-life movement, let the expansion lapse?
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Cardinal Dolan: In Defense of Culture Warriors
Sometimes ‘culture warriors’ are necessary. The Catholic Church in the United States has had occasion in our history to be more Ezekiel-like in its approach to culture.
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GOP governors busing migrants from the border was bad. Some Biden administration policies are even worse.
The transport of nonconsenting asylum seekers is a mainstay of U.S. immigration policy, and certain practices of the Department of Homeland Security have been far more destructive than bussing migrants north.
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Australia just voted down a voice for First Nations in its Constitution. What comes next for the Indigenous rights movement?
After the defeat of “The Voice” referendum, there is still an opportunity for Australians to reckon with their past. Catholics worldwide should also seek reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.
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How we write our history shapes how we think about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Some humility about how much we really know can help prevent toxic rhetoric when we talk about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with family, friends and colleagues of different faiths.
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What Pope Francis forgot about the media: You either feed the beast or the beast eats you
You either control the narrative, or the narrative is controlled by anyone who grabs the media’s attention.
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St. Augustine, just war and the plight of civilians in Israel and Gaza
It is hard to see how, at the present moment, either Gaza or Israel could possibly meet the traditional criteria of just war theory.