Jeanie Hannaman

By JD Flynn, Catholic News Agency - On Aug. 16, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo made U.S. Catholics a promise... The cardinal, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, wrote that a summer of scandal had revealed a spiritual crisis in the Church, through which “scores of beloved children of God were abandoned to face an abuse of power alone.”... “This is a moral catastrophe,” he wrote, while acknowledging that “one root cause is the failure of episcopal leadership.” “We firmly resolve,” he wrote, “with the help of God's grace, never to repeat it.”..