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By Msgr. Charles Pope - One of the most common complaints from the faithful regards priests who violate liturgical norms and/or allow others to do so. Few things offend charity and unity as much as the open, sometimes egregious violation of liturgical norms… God’s people have endured several decades of exotic and often egocentric liturgical experiments, which are not approved and which take the focus off God and the proper worship due Him.

By Jenn Abelson, Thomas Farragher, Boston Globe Staff and Jeremy Roebuck, Julia Terruso and William Bender of the Philadelphia Inquirer Staff - More than 130 US bishops — or nearly one-third of those still living — have been accused during their careers of failing to adequately respond to sexual misconduct in their dioceses, according to a Boston Globe and Philadelphia Inquirer examination of court records, media reports, and interviews with church officials, victims, and attorneys… At least 15… have themselves been accused of committing such abuse or harassment.