“Spotlight,” which chronicles the Boston Globe’s uncovering of the clergy sex abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of Boston, is a movie no Catholic will want to see. Whether it’s a film many mature Catholics ought to see is a different question entirely.
Dear Editor: Re: Insider’s Look at Francis’ Vision. Father Robert Lauder in The Tablet (July 18) rightly wrote that sex abuse scandals caused serious damage and demoralization. Consequently, the Church moaned in uncertainty and lack of confidence as its missionary vitality languished. The consumerist secular world seized advantage to marginalize us as we spiraled toward irrelevancy.
According to the Secretariat for Child and Youth Protection at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, U.S. Catholics at every level need to guard against “a tendency for complacency” toward the sex abuse crisis.
by Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – A former Vatican nuncio will stand trial in a Vatican court on charges of the sexual abuse of minors and possession of child pornography. Jozef Wesolowski, the laicized former nuncio to the Dominican Republic, is accused of “a number of offenses” committed between 2008 and the date of […]
Pope Francis accepted the resignations June 15 of Archbishop John C. Nienstedt and Auxiliary Bishop Lee A. Piche of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Father Virgilio Elizondo, founder of the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonio and a theology professor at the University of Notre Dame, was accused of sexually abusing an unidentified boy over 30 years ago in a lawsuit filed against him, the San Antonio Archdiocese and a former priest.
Msgr. William Lynn was ordered to return to jail May 1 after a hearing that recalled elements of the landmark 2012 trial that resulted in his conviction on a child endangerment charge.
Between July 2013 and June 2014, the U.S. Catholic Church spent a total of $150.7 million on child protection efforts and to address allegations of clergy sexual abuse of minors.
Consecrated men and women must honestly assess their attitudes toward abuse, as well as toward celibacy, said Sister Mary Lembo of the Center for Child Protection at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University.
When Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio celebrated a Mass of Hope and Healing for survivors of sexual abuse by the clergy, the mood was pensive. After all, this had not been done before in this diocese. It was difficult to judge what the reactions would be.
