Nationally known activist and priest the Rev. Michael Pfleger will be reinstated after an investigation found “no reason to suspect” he sexually abused children.
Sexual Abuse
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What Cardinal Pell thinks about the Vatican financial scandal he suspected long ago
Cardinal George Pell is enjoying his first Roman spring since being exonerated of sex abuse charges in his native Australia.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Arturo Sosa, S.J., on what Pope Francis and St. Ignatius have in common
St. Ignatius ”was a reformer and a better reformer than Luther,” Father Sosa says in this interview with America for the start of the Ignatian Year, because he “obtained reforms without causing division.”
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New lawsuit alleges former Newark archbishop abused 5-year-old girl
An archbishop of Newark groomed a 5-year-old girl by delivering food to her struggling family and regularly babysitting her, then sexually abusing her on multiple occasions in the 1970s, a lawsuit alleges.
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It’s time for our Catholic president to address the church’s sexual abuse scandal
For more than 25 years, the U.S. Catholic Church has been dealing with the horror of widespread clergy sex crimes and cover-ups. Yet U.S. abuse survivors have never received official acknowledgment of their pain by any federal official.
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St. Michael the Archangel is back. (Or at least his prayer is.)
Renewed interest in the prayer developed in the fall of 2018 in the wake of concerns about church unity and new revelations of the sexual abuse of children by clergy.
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Do you love the church but sometimes hate it? There’s a word for that feeling (and it can be beneficial).
The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan explained how it can be healthy to sometimes ‘hate’ what we truly love, including the church.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
Catholics owe Marty Baron a debt of gratitude. He told us the truth about the clerical sex abuse crisis.
An outsider in parochial Boston not beholden to ties of kin and culture, Mr. Baron greenlighted an expensive and difficult investigation.
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‘Francesco’ review: New Pope Francis documentary is an intimate look at a globetrotting papacy
“Francesco” dissolves much of the distance between the pope and the people of all faiths who embrace him.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis names Juan Carlos Cruz, prominent abuse survivor and whistleblower, to Vatican panel
Pope Francis has appointed Juan Carlos Cruz—a well-known Chilean victim of abuse, international advocate for survivors of clerical abuse and a gay man—to the Pontifical Council for the Protection of Minors.