"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.

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.

“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.”

Although the Catholic Church has many saints of African descent, it has no black American saints.

“Anyone accused of sexual misconduct will have his name removed from any place of honor.”

He knew about Uncle Ted, and he knew about everything else we’re about to find out. That is why he came.