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By Catholic News Agency - The bishop was particularly candid in his assessment of the cause of those problems: “In the specific situations at hand, we are talking about deviant sexual — almost exclusively homosexual — acts by clerics. We’re also talking about homosexual propositions and abuses against seminarians and young priests by powerful priests, bishops and cardinals. We are talking about acts and actions which are not only in violation of the sacred promises made by some, in short, sacrilege, but also are in violation of the natural moral law for all.

By Patrick B. Craine, LifeSiteNews - In the pastoral letter to his diocese, Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin, speaks with utter clarity about the “depravity” that has been allowed to fester in the Church and insists it must be “rooted out” even from within the U.S. episcopate… “It is time to admit that there is a homosexual subculture within the hierarchy of the Catholic Church that is wreaking great devastation in the vineyard of the Lord,” he writes… The sex abuse crisis has continued, he says, because the modern Church has become too comfortable with sin in her teaching and practice.

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - Advances in technology sometimes make things faster, but not necessarily better. Train travel is much more comfortable and civilized than air travel. But we put up with being jammed into modern airplanes because we are addicted to speed... And yet speed is not always the most important value.  There are people who type quickly, but their accuracy is terrible; others who read quickly, but their comprehension is low. It doesn’t help to drive fast if you’re traveling in the wrong direction.

By Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. Breitbart - The letter references a recent Pennsylvania grand jury report that alleges not only clerical sexual abuse but also “systematic cover-ups by bishops and others in positions of power.”... The report came hard on the heels of “revelations of decades of sexual predation by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and in the long shadow of the sexual abuse crisis in Boston and beyond,” the letter states... The centerpiece of the open letter is the following line: “Today, we call on the Catholic Bishops of the United States to prayerfully and genuinely consider submitting to Pope Francis their collective resignation as a public act of repentance and lamentation before God and God’s People.”