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by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2021 | Boston College, Catholic University of America, Church in the US, clerical seuxal abuse, lead, Massachusetts, McCarrick report, News, Theodore McCarrick | 0 |
A specific aspect of the statute of limitations on criminal charges in Massachusetts allowed ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s accuser to pursue charges for an alleged sexual assault nearly 50 years ago.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | 2020 election, Church in the US, Coronavirus pandemic, Joe Biden, lead, McCarrick report, News, Theodore McCarrick, USCCB | 0 |
2020 in the United States, like the rest of the world, will always be synonymous with the coronavirus pandemic. It’s taken over 330,000 American lives to date, put millions out of work and single-handedly changed the way society lives and communicates.
That is, however, only one chapter in the story of the American Catholic Church in 2020.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 11, 2020 | Church in the US, Clericalism, Fordham University, Initiative on Catholic Social Life and Public Thought, lead, McCarrick report, News | 0 |
In the aftermath of the Holy See’s report on laicized ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a clergy sex abuse survivor from Chile wants matters of clergy abuse to focus more on the survivors and less so on the episcopacy itself.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 8, 2020 | McCarrick report, News, St. John Paul II, The Dispatch | 0 |
CNA Staff, Dec 8, 2020 / 09:20 am (CNA).- St. John Paul II’s “highest priority” was combating clerical abuse and protecting young people, a Catholic archbishop said Monday in response to what he called “unprecedented […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 3, 2020 | Holy Spirit, McCarrick report, News, Only Jesus, Paula Kaempffer, Pope Benedict | 0 |
Dec. 1 marked my 11th anniversary as a bishop. There are some days when my first day as the bishop of Gaylord seems like yesterday, and others when it seems like a lifetime ago. Never having been involved in diocesan administration and never having lived in Michigan, I knew I had a great deal to learn. I only said “yes” because of my confidence in Pope Benedict, and my belief that the Holy Spirit could work through him.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Catholic Church, Church in Europe, lead, McCarrick report, News, Poland, Pope John Paul II | 0 |
Nearly 1500 academics in Poland have written an appeal against “slandering and rejecting John Paul II” after the publication of the McCarrick report by the Vatican on November 10.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 25, 2020 | Archbishop Wilton Gregory, Church in the US, consistory 2020, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, McCarrick report, News, Racism, Theodore McCarrick | 0 |
Speaking of the recent election of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States, Cardinal-designate Wilton Gregory of Washington, who will get a red hat from Pope Francis Saturday, has said that while the new administration certainly poses challenges for the Catholic Church, he believes there are also many points of convergence, including the fight against racism.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 22, 2020 | Clerical Abuse, Dallas charter, McCarrick report, News, Pope John Paul II, sex-abuse scandal, The Dispatch, Theodore McCarrick | 0 |
How did Theodore McCarrick make it to the helm, becoming a leading bishop and a prince of the Church? His journey and thirst for positions, power, and ambition is quite remarkable: from his 1977 appointment […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 21, 2020 | 2020, Acta, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Fr., Fr. Gerald E. Murray, McCarrick report, News, Pope Francis, The Catholic Thing, Vatican Secretariat of State | 0 |
Fr. Gerald E. Murray: The Report makes a significant contribution but in a matter of such grave scandal it’s far from complete or satisfying.
The post A Second Look into the McCarrick Report appeared first on The Catholic Thing.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 20, 2020 | abuse victims, Associated Press, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Catholic Church, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Holy See, Jeff Anderson, Lawsuits, McCarrick report, News, Vatican | 0 |
Four accusers of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick have filed a lawsuit against the Vatican, arguing it should be held liable for allowing the now-disgraced cleric to serve in multiple positions in New York and New Jersey when it knew of numerous allegations of sexual abuse against him.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 19, 2020 | Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, Archdiocese of Washington, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, McCarrick report, News, second | 0 |
Cardinal-designate Wilton D. Gregory of Washington said the Vatican’s report on former cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is a “tragic chronicle” about that churchman’s “unconscionable human violation.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 17, 2020 | Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Catholic Church, Church in the US, lead, McCarrick report, News, US bishops, USCCB, USCCB fall assembly | 0 |
A new virtual format left little room for dialogue at day one of the U.S. Bishops annual fall meeting, but for one 45-minute stretch more than a dozen bishops gave their takes on laicized ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
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