Pray For Uncle Ted Title: ‘Pray for Your Poor Uncle,’ a Predatory Priest Told His Victims Author: Elizabeth Bruenig Publisher: NYTimes Date: 15JUL2020 As former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick became a powerful figure in the church, several boys from one family say he targeted them Rain fell in New York City four days before Christmas of
Saints Clergy Abuse Help Title: How Much Did the Saints Help the Catholic Church on Its Sex Abuse Crisis? More Than They Admitted Author: Jenny Vrentas Publisher: Sports Illustrator Date: 17JUN2020 New Orleans’s favorite team has acknowledged providing “minimal” public relations help to the local archdiocese as it handled revelations of sexual abuse by clergy—but an
Vigano McCarrick Church Crisis Title: The Catholic Church’s Biggest Crisis Since the Reformation Why a New Wave of Sexual Abuse Revelations Has Deepened Preexisting Divisions Author: Massimo Faggioli Publisher: Foreign Affairs Date: 06JUN2019 The Catholic Church is facing its most serious crisis in 500 years. In these last few months, a new wave of clerical
Cupich Zollner Regaining TRUST Title: Cupich on new Catholic Church abuse protection task force: ‘Regaining trust has to begin with a profound sense of responsibility’ Author: JAVONTE ANDERSON Publisher: Chicago Tribune Date: 03MAR2020 In their first interview since Pope Francis named them among the leaders of a new worldwide task force on sexual abuse protections,
Clericalism root of abuse crisis Title: Clericalism cited as root of sex abuse crisis Author: Sarah Salvadore Publication: National Catholic Reporter Date: 04FEB2020 In a Jan. 29 talk at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, Jesuit Fr. Hans Zollner said that clericalism is the root cause of the damage done to the church and called out past