Word: catholicization
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As a Catholic struggling to keep the faith through all this, I find myself asking: Why? Why can these men not get the enormity of what has happened? The best I can come up with is that they are well-intentioned men who somehow cannot see that what they have...
This Church's current predicament plays to his strengths. Gregory is media-savvy, appearing on radio and television news programs to discuss the Catholic Church and its role in modern America. He apologized early and often to the adults and children who have been assaulted by pedophile priests, breaking the...
In two months, America's Catholic bishops will gather in Dallas for their annual meeting. They will discuss the sex abuse scandal, and struggle to answer the most critical question of all: How can they keep this from happening again? The man who will lead the search for those answers...
As the issue stands now, the Vatican supports a sort of modified zero-tolerance policy for America's 47,000 priests: call it "a couple of strikes and you're out." Priests who are found to be "notorious and guilty of the serial, predatory sexual abuse of minors" will automatically...
Reconciling the expectations of an angry Catholic community, the disparate feelings of various clergy members and the Pope's definitive guidelines falls into the hands of Bishop Gregory. Not that he is without his own misgivings about a ruling that would permit known offenders to return to work. "We bishops...