Forgiveness must not mean perpetuating secrecy and avoiding accountability. It means owning up to the truth.

Young people did not lose a trust we once had in the clergy; many of us never had that trust in the first place.

Polish bishops defended St. John Paul II on Friday against evidence that he rejected reports that ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick slept with his seminarians.

As a layperson, and as a father, I cannot continue to make myself dependent on ordained men. Not for this.

The church has come forth with a substantial public report that admits failure and injustice.

The failures detailed in the McCarrick report are not just tragic accidents but the predictable outcome of the incentives and attitudes that have shaped the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.