http://thecatholicspirit.com/only-jesus/archbishop-mccarrick-and-accountability/ The events of these past weeks have shown that no one can be above the law, regardless of rank or privilege ***** Every time Mass is celebrated, the priest prays that Jesus will “look not on our sins but on the faith of [his] Church… .” That’s been an important prayer for me in…
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/an-open-letter-from-young-catholics Archbishop McCarrick’s predatory career would not have been possible without the culpable silence or active complicity of men at the highest levels of the Church. Revelations of his abuse have therefore gravely damaged the credibility of the whole Catholic hierarchy. Here a group of young Catholics speaks with one voice about the need for…
Left to right: Orthodox theologian Nikolay Nikolayevich Afanasiev in undated photo (orthodoxwiki.org); Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger of Albany, N.Y., is pictured in a 2015 photo in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller); Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl at the USCCB’s annual spring assembly in July in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/08/07/the-current-crisis-and-the-order-of-the-laity/ One of the most…
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/08/08/enough-already/ Let us hear no more from priests, prelates, and Catholic writers dissenting from the truth – from reason, from Scripture, from the constant and clear teaching of the Church in the matter of the creation of mankind male and female, the one-flesh union willed by God from the beginning, the raising of boys to…
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/08/08/albany-bishop-independent-lay-commission-needed/ “What is needed now is an independent commission led by well-respected, faithful lay leaders who are beyond reproach, people whose role on such a panel will not serve to benefit them financially, politically, or personally,” Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany wrote in a statement released Aug. 6. “I think we have reached a point…
