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At six year mark, Francis’ pontificate struggles with crisis as stakes increase

March 13, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 8

Sixth anniversaries aren’t really a thing. Nobody thinks they are — not really — except insofar as it is a news hook on which to hang editorial copy, like that, which came on the occasion from […]

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Ahead of abuse summit, lay people assemble in silent protest in Rome

February 20, 2019 Alessandra Nucci 2

Taxi drivers looked around to see what the matter was when anti-riot police units in full gear appeared on three corners of Rome’s busy St. Sylvester Square on Tuesday. It took a few minutes for […]

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What the Bishop Zanchetta case tells us about Church leadership

January 22, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 26

The Vatican has doubled down on its insistence it never received any accusation of sexual abuse against Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta until well after Zanchetta, the former bishop of Orán, Argentina, was ensconced in a position […]

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2018: The year the Church’s crisis was unmasked

December 31, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 19

Whatever else 2018 was, it was the year in which the crisis of clerical sexual abuse and coverup revealed itself to be a cancer within the leadership culture of the Catholic Church. Protracted, persistent, and […]

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The Vatican obfuscates even while preparing for February meeting on abuse

November 23, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 18

The Vatican finally announced the members of the organizing committee responsible for preparing the meeting of the heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences this coming February 21-24. Most of the early reaction and attention has […]

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Observations on the Final Days of the Synod

October 28, 2018 Fr Nicholas Gregoris 6

The 2018 Synod on Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment was overshadowed, in part, by the “Summer of Shame,” as it was often termed in the media, as clerical sex abuse took center-stage from damning accusations […]

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Bishop Strickland of Tyler: “Lives have been damaged, even destroyed by abuse”

October 18, 2018 Jim Graves 7

Bishop Joseph Strickland, 59, has served as bishop of Tyler, Texas, since 2012. A native Texan, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Dallas in 1985. His first assignment as a priest was […]

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Amid controversy, Ave Maria University president will step down in 2020

October 12, 2018 Kate Peterson 24

The president of Ave Maria University in Southwest Florida will not have his contract renewed, the university announced this week. In a press release issued on October 8, AMU Board of Trustees Chairman Michael Timmis […]

Features

Abp Eamon Martin: “We may be a minority in Ireland, but we can be a creative minority”

September 25, 2018 Deborah Castellano Lubov 7

“We as a Church need to restore our confidence that we have a message which is solid. Our house is built on rock,” Archbishop Eamon Martin, president of Irish bishops’ conference says, noting: “If we […]

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Benedict, Viganò, Francis, and McCarrick: Where things stand on nuncio’s allegations

September 3, 2018 Catholic News Agency 35

“On its face, the arc of Archbishop Viganò’s story is straightforward,” says JD Flynn of CNA, “but the the fallout from the Viganò testimony has […]

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