Catholic Church

By CNA - The Archbishop of Boston this month forwarded to the pope’s U.S. representative concerns sent to him about a New York priest who was in active college and parish ministry while under investigation for charges of sexual abuse... The cardinal forwarded the correspondence the day after media reports emerged detailing the allegations made against the priest.

By Rod Dreher, American Conservative - Catholic journalist Phil Lawler has the correct read on the Cupich appointment: If the February conference is intended as an exercise in damage control, the Cupich appointment makes sense. If the conference is intended to prompt reform, the appointment makes no sense at all. So I conclude that this meeting—which one scarred veteran of the Vatican battles has described as the “last chance” for Vatican credibility—will produce nothing more than “enthusiastic words” about the fight against sexual abuse.

By Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D., Church Militant - (Caution: graphic content) James Grein, the victim on whom Abp. Theodore McCarrick preyed for 18 years, gave his sworn testimony of abuse in the archdiocese of New York Thursday… During the session, (Attny.) Welch told Grein he'd been following him ever since he went public with his testimony in The New York Times, reading about him and watching him at the Silence Stops Now rally and in other interviews. He told Grein he believed him… "When he told me at the very, very beginning that he believes me, I cried, worse than I've ever cried before," Grein…

By Bishop Thomas John Paprocki, Diocese of Springfield in Illinois - One case of clerical sexual abuse is one too many. But the facts show this to have been a historic problem, not one recurring regularly in the present. This was not made clear by the Attorney General’s report, which suggested that there is a continuing rape culture in the Catholic Church that is being covered up. That is false.