“Making this a gay issue is distraction, mostly, an attempt to place blame mostly (away from) from the clerical cover-up culture. It does a major disservice to women who were abused by the church and also a major disservice to gay priests.”
Sexual Abuse
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Reaction to the McCarrick story in the West Coast remains muted so far
“I get far more emails and phone calls about things like immigration, issues that are more politically controversial.”
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Cardinal Cupich supports investigation into mishandling of McCarrick complaints
It appears “there was somebody [who] dropped the ball.”
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Albany bishop says laypeople should investigate misconduct by U.S. bishops
Bishop Edward Scharfenberger said, “we have reached a point where bishops alone investigating bishops is not the answer.”
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Pittsburgh bishop says report will be ‘sad, tragic description’ of events
“I continue to be deeply concerned about the victims and the ongoing pain and suffering they endure,” Bishop Zubik said in the letter, read at all Masses.
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Is there a sexual abuse reckoning coming for the Latino church?
“For Hispanics, whatever the priest says goes. But that’s not right. The priest is not God. Nobody is above God.”
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The sex abuse scandal and the debasing of Catholic language
Holiness is incumbent upon all, but we also must strive to embrace the challenge to reappropriate the language of the evangelical counsels, now recast as evangelical imperatives.
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U.S. sisters demand action on sexual abuse crisis
“We join with all those demanding the end of a culture that ignores or tolerates sexual abuse of Catholic sisters or any other adult or minor perpetrated by those in positions of trust in the church community.”
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Cardinal DiNardo: Church must address its leaders’ ‘moral failures of judgment’
The accusations against Archbishop McCarrick, a former cardinal and retired archbishop of Washington, “reveal a grievous moral failure within the church,” said Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston.
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Cardinal Wuerl: Next steps in wake of Archbishop McCarrick allegations
The Catholic Standard published a question-and-answer interview July 31 with Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl about the next steps for the archdiocese in light of the sexual abuse allegations made against Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, a former cardinal and retired archbishop of Washington.