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Tim Busch is the founder of the Napa Institute, a Catholic organization. Tim Busch is the founder of the Busch Firm in Irvine, California, and founder of the Napa Institute, a Catholic lay organization.
COMMENTARY: The laity’s role isn’t about changing doctrine — it’s about promoting holiness and confronting corruption, especially in matters of abuse and financial oversight.
The April 3 death of Theodore McCarrick marks the end of a particularly sad chapter in the recent history of the Catholic Church.
The former cardinal — who most famously served as the powerful archbishop of Washington, D.C. — became the face of the sexual abuse of minors, leading Pope Francis to remove him from the priesthood and rescind his position in the College of Cardinals. Yet while McCarrick is now gone, the need for reform in the Catholic Church remains.
McCarrick was well-known in Catholic circles from the 1980s onward, but he only became a household name in the late 2010s. That’s when allegations went public that the then-cardinal — who had previously served as a bishop in New York and New Jersey — had sexually pursued male seminarians for decades and even sexually assaulted a 16-year-old altar boy. T…
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