http://theleaven.org/archbishop-response-to-clergy-sex-abuse-crisis/ This is not a moment for any of us to allow ourselves to yield to natural feelings of discouragement and despair. It is an occasion for all of us to recommit ourselves to living lives of integrity. For me and my brother bishops, it is a time to renew our determination to strive to…
http://catholicphilly.com/2018/08/news/local-news/archbishop-chaput-to-pope-cancel-youth-synod-meet-about-bishops/ Archbishop Charles Chaput is asking Pope Francis to call off the synod of bishops in Rome on the concerns of young people in the church, set for this October.
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/08/31/something-more-than-a-crisis/ Yet it is so divided, and the “hot” civil war that has now started was preceded by decades of “cold.” The failure of successive “conservative” popes to enforce their own rulings led finally to the (I think, unintended) revolution at the last papal conclave.
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/benjamin-wiker/from-a-moral-historical-perspective-this-crisis-is-worse-than-you-realize There is nothing, nothing, that undermines the authority of the Church more quickly and thoroughly than this devilish marriage of scandal and hypocrisy.
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/the-necessary-fear Pope Benedict XVI once said, “the absence of the fear of God is the beginning of all foolishness.” In our time, in our Church, it has brought more than foolishness. Let us return to the necessary fear—and in it, ground our hope in Christ more firmly.
