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…
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column/with-mccarrick-timing-is-everything-3931 The timing of these revelations alongside the commemoration of one of the most polemical papal writings in the history of the Church – which happens to be about love and sex – is more than a coincidence for me. God, in his gift of free will, has allowed us to be utterly stupid about…
http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/07/28/0548/01187.html Yesterday evening the Holy Father received the letter in which Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington (U.S.A.), presented his resignation as a member of the College of Cardinals. Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the cardinalate and has ordered his suspension from the exercise of any public ministry, together with the obligation to…
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/27/ambassador-callista-gingrich-to-strengthen-womens-rights-must-protect-religious-freedom.html As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday: “When religious freedom flourishes, a country flourishes.” This week’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom illustrates America’s enduring commitment to religious liberty as a human right and as an integral element in advancing the empowerment of women and girls worldwide through U.S. foreign policy. This comprehensive, international…
https://archny.org/cardinalmccarrick Statement of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York The Archdiocese of New York, along with every other diocese in the country, has long encouraged those who as minors suffered sexual abuse by a priest to come forward with such reports. As he himself announced earlier this morning, a report has come to…
