Catholic Church

By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative - What do bishops and senior pastors do when nobody believes them anymore? At Willow Creek, they resign. And with the US Catholic bishops?.... They were given chance after chance after chance. A couple of nights ago, Cardinal DiNardo appeared on EWTN to talk about the McCarrick mess. Watch this truly pathetic statement by a church bureaucrat who comes across as out of touch with the moral and spiritual magnitude of the bishops’ failures. He wants to “move forward”...

By Kathy Schiffer, National Catholic Register - Another bishop has spoken out against the McCarrick crimes and against the clerical culture which allowed them to go on. Bishop Shawn McKnight, bishop of Jefferson City, Missouri, minced no words… “It is almost unbearable. How could a brother bishop disrespect with such callousness the dignity of young boys, seminarians and priests over decades and no one called him on the carpet… As successors to the Apostles, we bishops are called to be priests, prophets and shepherds who practice in action what we preach in words. May God help us to be faithful to Jesus in fulfilling our obligations as bishops.”

By Cynthia Millen, Catholic Stand - As a Catholic school teacher, I’ve been required to take several “safe touching” classes. I’ve had to sign document after document in which I agree to abide by Church teaching. I am prohibited from being in a room alone with a student, to transport a student, or to have any private contact with a student. I am required to be careful about everything I publish on the web…. Bishops, why did you exempt yourselves from the rigorous requirements under which the rest of your flock were placed?