Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Patheos - Many had hoped that Church was seeing an end to the litany of sexual abuse scandals which rocked it during the first ten years of the millennium. Instead, there seems to be a new generation of scandals, in which abuse of adults, especially seminarians, and financial impropriety are the main offenses… (now) we have a global church and instant global communications. As Ed Condon at Catholic News Agency points out, the Vatican has to tiptoe through a minefield of accusations from Chile, to Honduras and from Washington DC to England. And doubtless there is more where that came from…

By Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald - An atheist acquaintance once told me that he respected religion, he identified with its values of reverence, humility and gratitude and its understanding of life and death – but that he didn’t believe the “factual story.” I tried to point out that you can’t separate them; that reverence, humility and gratitude flow from the life of Christ and that our whole attitude towards life and death is profoundly changed by Christian discipleship.