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By Daniel Payne, National Catholic Register, (Complicit Clergy) - The Diocese of Fresno, California, will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid more than 150 child abuse claims filed against it, Bishop Joseph Brennan said this week... The diocese “​​will file a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with the United States Bankruptcy Court in 2024,” Bishop Brennan said in a Tuesday announcement on the diocesan website.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Two noteworthy essays appeared online today: Father Tom Reese, the liberal Jesuit journalist who was a persistent critic of Pope Benedict XVI, has now become a critic of Pope Francis. The title of his his piece in the National Catholic Reporter says it all: “Pope Francis disappoints progressives. He will do so again.” Reflecting on the Pope’s “No” to female deacons and his crude remark about “fa***try” in seminaries, Father Reese says with regret that this Pope is “unwilling to change church teaching in any radical way.” He “sometimes sounds like a grandfather who says things that make his grandchildren cringe.”