https://www.catholicculture.org/news/features/index.cfm?recnum=21242 THE RITE OF DEGRADATION If the degradandus be an archbishop, the degrading prelate removes his pallium, saying: We deprive thee of the rights and privileges of the episcopal dignity, symbolized in this pallium, since thou hast abused them. Then, even if the degradandus be a mere bishop, the degrading prelate removes his mitre, saying:…
https://www.rcda.org/news-events/media-center/news-releases/bishop-scharfenbergers-letter-clergy-stating-latest-abuse-revelations-show-situation-much-more-crisis-policies-and-proceduresit Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger sent the following letter to members of the clergy (vicars, priests, deacons, seminarians) on Friday afternoon. It was also copied to Parish Life Directors and Department Heads at the diocesan Pastoral Center.
https://fwdioc.org/news-7-28-18-BpOlson-letter-regarding-Former-Cardinal-McCarrick.pdf
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/pennsylvania-catholic-nuclear-bomb-grand-jury/ Breaking news out of Pennsylvania: the state Supreme Court has ordered the release next month of a 900-page grand jury report that will discuss more than 300 “predator priests” in six of the state’s eight Catholic dioceses. According to PennLive.com: The findings, which exceed 800 pages, are widely expected to expose decades-old abuse of…
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/28/vatican-meets-metoo-nuns-denounce-their-abuse-by-priests.html Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done…
