Catholic Church

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - Pope Francis has decided to combine the results of an investigation begun last year into Archbishop Theodore McCarrick with a new, “thorough study” of all the documentation contained in the Vatican archives in order to “ascertain all the relevant facts” surrounding the ex-cardinal… the Holy See would “make known the conclusions of the matter regarding Archbishop McCarrick” in “due course,” but in the meantime, the Pope had decided to combine the information gathered by the preliminary investigation with a “further thorough study of the entire documentation present in the archives of the dicasteries and offices of the Holy See”….

By Diane Montagna, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, today issued an open letter to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, in response to his explosive 11-page testimony, alleging that Pope Francis and several high-level prelates were complicit in covering up ex-U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s homosexual abuse of seminarians.

By Mark Greaves, Catholic Herald - Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), has urged Pope Francis to “look for reconciliation” with his critic Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò… the German cardinal called on the Pope to “give answers to [his] accusations or questions”, saying: “The people of God have a right to know what happened.”… “[The Pope] must be a symbol of the unity of the Church. We must overcome, with the help of the Holy Father, the splitting of the Church… We are one Church united in the faith and not of conservative or liberal ideology.”

Catholic News Agency - During his Oct. 4 speech at the 2018 Synod of Bishops, Bishop Frank Caggiano of Bridgeport said that the Church must “continue to directly address the issue of the sexual abuse of minors and youth by clerics in many regions of the world.”.. “It is a both a crime and a sin that has undermined the confidence and trust that young people must have in the Church’s leaders and the Church as an institution, so that they may again trust their priests and bishops to exercise true spiritual fatherhood, serve as adult figures in their lives, and as authentic mentors of faith.”