The suit alleges that at age 11, the boy began to be sexually abused in 1978 by a priest at a New Jersey parish and the abuse continued at the hands of another cleric at the Catholic high school he attended, and then with McCarrick in 1982.
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Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Why is there so much violence? We’re all just imitating each other.
We know from history that engaging in violence only causes more problems. So why do police and protesters still do it? René Girard had an answer: imitative behavior.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
N.J. Catholic communities mourn death of the son of a federal judge
Daniel Anderl was fatally shot in the heart when a gunman entered the family home in North Brunswick Township, New Jersey, on July 19.
Posted inFaith, News
French police suspect arson was cause of fire at Nantes cathedral
Although more than 100 firefighters contained the blaze within two hours and stopped it from spreading to the main body of the church, a 17th-century choir organ at the west end of the building was destroyed with much of the choir area and multiple stained-glass windows.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Religious ideals shaped the broken U.S. prison system. Can they also fix it?
How the influence of religion and a desire for retaliation have made the U.S. penal system exceptional in all the worst ways
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Suspect arrested, charged with felonies in crash, fire at Florida church
A 24-year-old Florida man who hadn’t taken his schizophrenia medication set fire to a church in Orlando was later caught and charged with among other things, attempted second-degree murder.
Posted inExplainer, Politics & Society
Explainer: Can President Trump designate ‘antifa’ as a terrorist group?
Branding “antifa” (short for “antifascist”) or any domestic association as a terror group is problematic, primarily because the United States “does not officially designate domestic terrorist organizations.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Coming out of Covid lockdown, South African women face another deadly problem: femicide
A wave of killing of women and children has horrified the country in recent weeks since the gradual easing of the coronavirus lockdown restrictions on June 1.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Formerly incarcerated people: No, quarantine is not ‘just like prison’
Feeling restless because we cannot go out to eat or attend a concert hardly amounts to involuntary incarceration.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic leaders denounce court’s rejection of federal death penalty appeal
Sister Helen Prejean, a long-time advocate of abolishing the death penalty, has said that the Supreme Court has “abdicated its legal and moral responsibilities” in allowing executions to proceed in various cases.