Another bishop fails to put children first in dealing with abusive priest
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The LA Archdiocese's response to sex abuse cover up: Too little, too late?
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When the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was required by a court of law to hand over internal documents related to past cases of sexual abuse by priests, it was pretty clear why the archdiocese never wanted them to see the light of day.
Consulting the faithful: Why bishops should use review boards and how they work
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Canon lawyer and charter member of the National Review Board Nicholas Cafardi talks about the importance of advisory boards and lay consultation.
[Read more from Nicholas Cafardi on the sex abuse crisis in the church.]
We can do better: Responding to sex abuse 10 years later
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An attorney and charter member of the National Review Board sizes up the U.S. church’s progress on sex abuse over the last 10 years.
[Read more from Nicholas Cafardi on the importance of lay review boards.]
Take it to the board: How effective are lay review boards in preventing sex abuse?
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Panels reviewing sex abuse allegations help dioceses get their houses in order, but they are only as effective as the information the bishops give them.
Jim Caccamo has a simple explanation for why he joined the lay review board for the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Missouri back in 2005: Former Bishop Raymond Boland asked him to.
“When the bishop asks you, you say yes,” says Caccamo, a lifelong Catholic and member of St. Peter’s Parish in Kansas City.
Needs improvement: Readers rate the bishops' response to church sex abuse
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A progress report from U.S. Catholic readers says that bishops still haven’t learned all their lessons on the subject of sexual abuse.
Anger. Betrayal. Sadness. Disappointment. These are just some of the myriad of emotions felt by Catholics in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal that broke in 2002. And a decade later—following a flood of additional details on cases of clerical abuse and cover-ups as well as new efforts to enforce transparency and accountability within the church—many U.S. Catholic readers still hold on to those same feelings of disillusionment.
The scandal continues: Clergy sex abuse crisis
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Despite the steps taken to protect children in recent years, Justice Anne Burke says that recent development suggest little has changed for the hierarchy.
Just when it appeared that the fallout over the abuse scandal in our own nation could not get any worse, the other shoe dropped in Philadelphia. A large number of accused clerics had never been removed from active ministry by either the past or current archbishop of Philadelphia.
Broken trust, broken lives: Survivors of priest sexual abuse speak out
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For many, it is one of those assuring, evocative aromas, the kind that launches a cascade of warm and welcome childhood memories and recollections of sacred and peaceful moments. But for Christopher Dixon, it's the smell of burned candle, the blackened wax, that drives him away from Mass. It's a smell that never fails to remind him of "Father [John] Fischer with his finger pointing at me, 'Come here,' calling me back to the sacristy."
The truth shall set us free: Responding to the sex abuse crisis
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In this excerpt of her March 23, 2010 talk at St. Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne M. Burke, who served on the National Review Board responding to the U.S. sex abuse scandal, lambasts those church officials who continue to betray the gospel by their untruthfulness in the clergy sex abuse scandals.
Hope for the Irish church on St. Patrick's Day?
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By guest blogger Rory Fitzgerald
It has been a long, dark winter here in Ireland.
The church has been a rock for the Irish people for sixteen centuries. Ireland's economy has spectacularly collapsed. Now, people say that the ancient Irish church is collapsing.
The Dublin Report was published last November, just as the worst floods in recorded history submerged major Irish cities, followed by the coldest winter in years.
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Advising Pope Francis on the challenges ahead
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