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Kevin McKenna is the pastor of St. Theodore’s parish in Rochester, N.Y., former president of the Canon Law Society of America and the author of “Pope Francis and the Parish” (Paulist Press, 2022) and “A Concise Guide to Canon Law: A Practical Handbook” (Ave Maria Press, 2023).
Priests’ vestments on hangers in a 2018 photo. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)
FaithShort Take
Kevin E. McKenna
It is important that safeguards for due process for those accused of sexual abuse be honored, even as we work toward guaranteeing the safety of all members of the church.
Bishop Joseph C. Bambera of Scranton, Pa., talks to an immigrant woman, recently released from U.S. custody, on July 1 at a Catholic Charities center in McAllen, Tex., as part of a fact-finding trip to the border by a delegation of U.S. bishops. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth) 
FaithShort Take
Kevin E. McKenna
We can see and judge the unjust treatment of refugees and migrants by the United States. Now we must address the root causes of the injustice.
MARRIAGE COUNSELORS. Bishop Dimitrios Salachas of Greece, left, talks with Msgr. Pio Vito Pinto, dean of the Roman Rota, a Vatican court.
Kevin E. McKenna
Many canon lawyers may be in an ecclesiastical funk since the election of Pope Francis. Not one to “wield canons” at miscreants violating ecclesiastical norms, this pontiff seems more prone to mediation, conciliation and mercy, while upholding the important values of communion within the
Kevin E. McKenna
Are significant changes in the synod process likely?
Kevin E. McKenna
The church is not a democracy, we often hear, and the statement is true in several senses. But does this mean that the faithful have no rights before church authorities? Is the church’s teaching on the importance of basic human rights consistent with its own internal governance? The present Co
Faith
Kevin E. McKenna
Before banks of cameras, intense lights and the gaze of victims of sexual abuse, the bishops of the United States recently debated in Dallas a new policy to “repair the breach” with those damaged at the hands of church ministers. They approved overwhelmingly a Charter for the Protection