https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Dallas-Bishop-492163571.html Bishop Edward Burns, of the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, is leading an almost unprecedented effort to urge Pope Francis to call for a worldwide gathering of clergy to address the ongoing child sex abuse scandal within the church. “If the church is ever going to restore trust and credibility it would only come after…
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.
