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Zanchetta affair exposes culture of fear, indifference

March 18, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 14

The global Catholic leadership crisis deepened on Monday, when Crux cited anonymous sources in Argentina in a report claiming two young men have lodged criminal complaints with civil authorities, alleging Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta abused them. […]

Questions remain about McCarrick, even as new scandals emerge

February 16, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 13

(Rome, February 16th, 2019) The Vatican announced on Saturday that the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore, Edgar McCarrick, has been dismissed from the clerical state after being found guilty of several different canonical […]