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August 16, 2018 – Cardinal O’Malley laments ‘egregious failures to protect children’ in wake of scathing PA grand jury report

https://whdh.com/news/cardinal-omalley-laments-egregious-failures-to-protect-children-in-wake-of-scathing-pa-grand-jury-report/ Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley issued a statement Thursday addressing a shocking grand jury report that found that hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children since the 1940s, and senior church officials covered up the abuse. “There are times when words fail us – when they do not capture the…

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August 16, 2018 – President of U.S. Bishops’ Conference Announces Effort That Will Involve Laity, Experts, and the Vatican as U.S. Bishops Resolve to Address “Moral Catastrophe”

http://www.usccb.org/news/2018/18-139.cfm Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has issued the following statement after a series of meetings with members of the USCCB’s Executive Committee and other bishops. The following statement includes three goals and three principles, along with initial steps of a plan that will…

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August 16, 2018 – The Banality Of The Bishops’ Evil

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/banality-of-catholic-bishop-evil/?mc_cid=786861d628&mc_eid=c66ff4a0fd I know y’all are worn out by all my takes on the Catholic abuse scandal, but if you can stand it, Megan McArdle’s column on it is worth reading. This graf jumped out at me: There are plenty of tales to tell about how church reality came to resemble a dime novel, yet most…

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August 15, 2018 – Against Weak Men

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/catholic-bishops-weak-men/?mc_cid=240f03de8b&mc_eid=c66ff4a0fd I try to keep my work separate from family life. But it turned out to be a teaching moment. Our children are watching us, and learning from us. We are stewards of the church, and of the world they will inherit. If the faith matters to us, then by God, they’ve got to see…