What I've learned from more than 50 years in service of the church.

Brotherhood must not be used as a cloak for privilege and secrecy.

We have been told we are too gay or too female or too mentally ill or too divorced to serve in the church.

In the wake of this scandal, I do not blame people for leaving the church.

He said he can’t let his feelings get in the way of this. He can’t bend the rules for one person.

Some Catholics would like to exploit the crisis to promote anti-L.G.B.T. agendas. We cannot stand for it.