In this episode, we look at the reforms the U.S. Catholic Bishops drafted after the sexual abuse crisis of 2002. How did these new rules change things for Catholics in parishes around the country?
Sexual Abuse
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Why this Lent is an opportunity to get our response to sex abuse right
A summit hosted by The Leadership Roundtable found concrete ways to address the church’s twin crises: a crisis of abuse and a crisis of leadership failures and cover-up.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Secret archives, Cardinal Pell and the slow progress of the sex abuse summit
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerry O’Connell and I update you on what has been happening since the sexual abuse summit.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
French court finds Cardinal Barbarin guilty of not reporting abuser priest
The court imposed a six-month suspended prison sentence on him, meaning he will not have to spend time in prison.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
What Catholic leaders should give up for Lent this year
With the beginning of Lent, we are all called to focus on one of the spiritual aspects of the sex abuse crisis that underpins all the others: namely, the tragic failure to see.
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After Vatican abuse summit, survivors express disappointment and call for concrete reforms
Survivors of abuse and their advocacy organizations had expressed frustration with the lack of specific recommendations at the conclusion of the Vatican summit.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Cardinal Mahony pressured to withdraw from L.A. Congress over handling of sex abuse crisis
“We respect him and his office,” she told America. “But right now the issue of clergy sexual abuse is so much in the news, and the issue of covering up.” Cardinal Mahony, she said, is a “symbol of this.”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
The Vatican summit on the protection of minors is over. What’s next?
The recent Vatican summit on the protection of minors ended on Feb. 24. Since then many have asked, “What’s next?”
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The Deliver Us podcast asks: Is the church still covering up abuse?
In this episode of “Deliver Us” we ask: Is the church still covering up abuse?
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Explainer: The context and history of the Cardinal Pell verdict
There are elements in the trial of Cardinal Pell that do not easily translate to a U.S. context, including a media blackout and the cardinal’s long history with the issues of sexual abuse and cover-up.