Columnist: Elizabeth Bruenig
Theodore McCarrick and the Church’s Abuse Problem
Rain fell in New York City four days before Christmas of 2018. Francis M. had planned to be in the city that day for business, but he had dutifully put ...
Pope Francis Failed to Handle the Sex Abuse Crisis in 2018 – Let’s Hope 2019 is Different.
Pope Francis did not have the year he thought he was going to have. It began this way: marked by sniping about his reform tendencies, especially where Catholic Church teaching ...
The Catholic Church has Obliterated its Ability to Inspire Trust
The church has described itself as “mater et magistra,” mother and teacher. Yet, having obliterated its ability to inspire trust, in large part through decades of abuse and abuse-enabling, the ...