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June 12, 2019

Young Bishops: Laity Must Investigate Bad Bishops, by Bradley Eli

By Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th., Church Militant - As bishops meet this week in Baltimore, younger bishops are fighting for greater lay involvement in conducting truly independent investigations of bad bishops like Theodore McCarrick… Laity and younger bishops like Bp. Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas and Bp. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri view lay involvement as a crucial aspect of carrying out truly transparent investigations that hold complicit bishops accountable for their roles in perpetrating or covering up clerical sex abuse… "As we approach the Baltimore meeting of bishops I share what I have heard from my flock," Bp. Strickland tweeted on Friday. "'Bishop please do all you can to ensure that a strong lay voice is part of the norms and that laity have a significant role in the investigation & cleanup of this scandal' I will do so!"

June 12, 2019

Fathers: Education is the Initiation of Your Children into Culture, by R. Jared Staudt

By R. Jared Staudt, Those Catholic Men - If we don’t teach our kids how to live their faith in an integrated way, they will follow the way of the world. Our family culture will conform either to our faith or to the secular worldview. Catechesis imparts not just the content of the faith but a Christian way of life… If our children conform to the secular culture more than to the faith, we will experience a breakdown in the raising of Christian men and women.

June 12, 2019

Woke Capitalism: Big Business Pushing Social Justice Issues, by Rachel Alexander

By Rachel Alexander, The Stream - Some of the top brands are now pushing social justice themes as part of their products and advertising. Not content with selling their products to a wide variety of people, big businesses now try to sell something else: Social justice. They want you to get woke when you pull out your wallet… The businesses apparently don’t care about upsetting a large portion of their customers.

June 12, 2019

Review Board Chairman Rues US Bishops’ Failure to Prod Holy See on McCarrick, Calls for Rejection of ‘Metropolitan Option’, posted by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Addressing the June 2019 USCCB general assembly, Francesco Cesareo, chairman of the national Review Board, urged the bishops to adopt truly independent audits of diocesan anti-abuse efforts, to hold bishops to the same accountability standards as other clerics, and to have lay review boards, rather than metropolitan archbishops, investigate abuse allegations against bishops. He lamented the bishops’ failure to pass a resolution at their November meeting that would have called on the Holy See to release its documentation on Theodore McCarrick.