Jeanie Hannaman

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - Three of the top six cardinals in the race to become the next pope, including Hungary’s conservative Cardinal Péter Erdő, have been accused of covering clerical sex abuse in the Catholic Church... Last Thursday, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and fellow advocacy group Nate’s Mission released a bombshell dossier containing evidence against cardinals Péter Erdő, Mario Grech, and Luis Antonio Tagle... The dossier also included complaints against cardinals Robert Francis Prevost, Kevin Farrell, and Víctor Manuel Fernández—who, while high-ranking, are not considered papabili (potential popes).

By Yahoo News, Staff, (Complicit Clergy) - For the first time ever, over the objections of the Debtor, the Judge in a Diocesan bankruptcy has mandated the disclosure of meeting minutes prepared by the Debtor’s Independent Review Board (the “IRB Minutes”) and anonymous claims data (the “Claims Data”) aggregated from proofs of claim submitted by Survivors of childhood sexual abuse (“Survivors”). The case is In re THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF SAN FRANCISCO and the committee is represented by law firm Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones (“PSZJ”).

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - It is almost impossible, in our time of social alienation, family breakdown, self-imposed detachment, radical sexual individualism, and loneliness, to ask people to consider what a society is; a prerequisite, one might think, for considering the social teachings of the Church, or the social good or harm to be expected from a proposed policy... It is as if we were to ask a shepherd on the steppes to build a fleet of ships, when he has never seen one in his life.