Catholic Church

By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing - The revelations of the criminal predatory behavior of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick towards male minors, and the simultaneous public admission by the Archbishop of Newark and the Bishop of Metuchen that their predecessors protected then-Cardinal Archbishop of Washington (McCarrick) by paying off and silencing two adult male victims of sexual molestation in 2004 and 2006...

By Dan Almeter, The Stream - I spent six years in a Catholic seminary in the ’70s. The current scandal of predatory homosexuality came as no surprise to me... My fellow seminarians laughed at Pope Paul VI when he re-affirmed the Church’s teaching about homosexuality through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Persona Humana. The seminary rector ordered us to lock our bedroom door every night because of predatory behavior. I was “hit on” by priests and fellow seminarians.

By Courtney Grogan, Catholic News Agency - We are in the midst of a massive crisis, notwithstanding some resistance to that idea by some of our prelates. And those wounds are opened up. This is where not only can Jesus bring healing, but he can also use that experience of woundedness, whether that is personally or institutionally or spiritually as the body of Christ. He uses those wounds to bring greater good, to bring grace and healing to His Church....

St Maximilian Kolbe - The Immaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. However, assumed into Heaven, the Mother of God now requires our cooperation. She seeks souls who will consecrate themselves entirely to her, who will become in her hands effective instruments for the defeat of Satan