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Aggregated news and commentary from across the web regarding cover-up of the sexual abuse scandal.

Reflections on the Bishops in Baltimore

Reflections on the Bishops in Baltimore

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How long can they deny the obvious? As I walked outside the hotel in Baltimore where the bishops gathered last week for their semiannual conference, I noticed a couple of bishops ...
CAL THOMAS: The Shame of the Catholic Church

CAL THOMAS: The Shame of the Catholic Church

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Some critics suggest Pope Francis should resign One doesn’t have to be Roman Catholic or even Christian to recognize the great good the Catholic Church has done. America would be ...
NBC to the Rescue of the USCCB

NBC to the Rescue of the USCCB

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LifeSite News, Church Militant and The Lepanto Institute are arguably on the front lines of the debate about homosexuality in the priesthood. Apparently, NBC News and the USCCB have had enough of it. NBC News ...
Cupich and Wuerl Collaborated on Alternative Sex Abuse Proposal

Cupich and Wuerl Collaborated on Alternative Sex Abuse Proposal

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Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington collaborated extensively on a recently proposed policy for handling abuse allegations against bishops, CNA has learned. Cupich submitted the ...
They Just Don't Get It

They Just Don’t Get It

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Souls are being lost while the bishops fail to act. The Vatican’s stunning request that the American bishops press pause on voting on a plan to address the abuse crisis ...
A Few Good Men

A Few Good Men

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In spite of the disappointing results of the 2018 USCCB Fall Conference, there were a few bishops that offered some inspiring interventions that should give us hope for the future of ...
To the US Bishops: A (Friendly) Call to Repentance and Reform

To the US Bishops: A (Friendly) Call to Repentance and Reform

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Not only the US bishops but a significant portion of lay Catholics are discussing and pondering – almost obsessively — what can be done to address the sexual abuse crisis ...
Legatus Withholding 2019 Vatican Tithe

Legatus Withholding 2019 Vatican Tithe

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Legatus is a national organization for Catholic business leaders. On November 16, its founder and CEO, Thomas Monaghan, sent this out to the membership: Dear fellow members, On September 6th, I ...
The Pope Owns This

The Pope Owns This

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The annual Fall Meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which took place in Baltimore earlier this week, was a disappointment on many levels. Yet there were ...
Must Read: Bishop Writes of ‘Cowards,’ ‘Episcopal Arrogance,’ ‘Insular’ Hierarchy, Need for Lay Involvement

Must Read: Bishop Writes of ‘Cowards,’ ‘Episcopal Arrogance,’ ‘Insular’ Hierarchy, Need for Lay Involvement

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Bishop Sean McKnight of Jefferson City wrote this letter to his flock after the 2018 USCCB Fall Conference. The November General Assembly of Bishops in Baltimore was a difficult but ...
Missouri Bishops Go Against the Grain in Pointed Letter to USCCB

Missouri Bishops Go Against the Grain in Pointed Letter to USCCB

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The statement by all five bishops in Missouri is direct and blunt. So is their cover letter to Timothy L. Doherty. Doherty, bishop of Lafayette in Indiana, is the chairman of the ...
Pope Francis Undermined Vatican Diplomatic Immunity with USCCB Intervention

Pope Francis Undermined Vatican Diplomatic Immunity with USCCB Intervention

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In ordering the U.S. bishops to abstain from voting on measures aimed at addressing clerical sex abuse, Pope Francis may have inadvertently performed the most consequential and costly act of his papacy ...
The Roots and Fruit of Ecclesial Idolatry

The Roots and Fruit of Ecclesial Idolatry

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In this present crisis in the Church, with more and more revelations of a “sodomitic filth that insinuates itself like a cancer in the ecclesiastical order” (St. Peter Damian), and the ...
How US Bishops Should Have Responded to Vatican Hijacking Their Meeting

How US Bishops Should Have Responded to Vatican Hijacking Their Meeting

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It was with the proverbial whimper that the recent USCCB meeting in Baltimore went out. The hoped-for and indeed expected bang was thwarted by forces without and within. The Vatican ...
Federal Lawsuit Asks For Court Order To Name Predator Priests Nationwide

Federal Lawsuit Asks For Court Order To Name Predator Priests Nationwide

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The Catholic church’s secrets could become public information if a federal lawsuit succeeds. A federal lawsuit is asking the court to order Catholic leaders to name predator priests nationwide. The ...
Rate the Bishops' Conference

Rate the Bishops’ Conference

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Spineless Bishops Unable to Pass Simple Resolution Calling for Release of McCarrick Documents

Spineless Bishops Unable to Pass Simple Resolution Calling for Release of McCarrick Documents

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On the last day of their fall meeting, the U.S. bishops’ conference voted down a resolution that would have “encouraged” the Holy See to release all documents on the allegations ...
Vatican Theologian: Pope Francis Must Urgently Issue Profession of Faith

Vatican Theologian: Pope Francis Must Urgently Issue Profession of Faith

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In a forceful interview with Italian Vaticanist Aldo Maria Valli, Msgr. Nicola Bux has warned that the current pontificate is issuing statements that are generating “heresies, schisms, and controversies of ...
Disgraced Bishop Timlin Defies Diocese, Attends USCCB Fall Conference

Disgraced Bishop Timlin Defies Diocese, Attends USCCB Fall Conference

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A retired Scranton bishop who allegedly helped cover up decades of sex abuse cases defied the diocese and attended a national Catholic conference at which U.S. bishops were considering new ...
The Bishops Go Bust in Baltimore

The Bishops Go Bust in Baltimore

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The USCCB’s uselessness as an agent of holiness is on display yet again. In the early days of Baltimore, if a Catholic leader had proposed a religious gathering at a ...
US Bishops’ Advisory Council: Investigate Seminaries to Prevent ‘Predatory’ Homosexual Abuse

US Bishops’ Advisory Council: Investigate Seminaries to Prevent ‘Predatory’ Homosexual Abuse

The outgoing and incoming chairpersons of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) National Advisory Council (NAC) delivered stirring presentations on the sex abuse crisis at the fall gathering ...
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