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The CATHOLIC CHURCH: A Call to Repentance.(Brief Article)
The American Catholic bishops met in Dallas on June 13-14 to consider the priest sex-abuse scandals. Their draft statement was all that was available to NR at press time, and, like many such statements, it was a mixed bag.
The Church decided to square itself with the state. The bishops pledged to report all accusations of the sex abuse of minors to the proper authorities, and to cooperate in investigating them. They also pledged to advise victims of their right to go to the cops. In essence, the Church promised to avoid behaving as a bullying and secretive in-group -- the very stuff of 19th-century nativist accusations -- and to render ununto Caesar what is Caesar's. For this reason, the bishops' draft was welcomed by prosecutors.
Did the bishops square themselves with the faithful, and with morality? At one point, their draft was naive. They want the ministerial status of priests who, in the past, abused only one minor, but who were not diagnosed as pedophiles, to be determined by a diocesan review board, with a majority of laymen. But how many molesters strike only once? La Rochefoucauld said that some women have no affairs, but none have just one. The same is true of child molesters.
The priest sex scandals implicate more than the wicked priests who are at fault. A selfish and blinkered hierarchy protected ...
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- Magazine article from: Commonweal Hayes, Diana L. October 24, 2008 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter February 6, 2009 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Coday, Dennis April 16, 2004 700+ words
Sr. Peggy Fanning, director of religious education at St. Boniface in Elmont, N.Y., believes young people have a lot to offer the church. That's why the Sister of St. Joseph has about 40 teen volunteers who help out with religious education classes on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. They serve
- The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Hunt, George W. June 19, 1998 700+ words
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Twice a week in 89 countries and territories, a pleasant-looking nun dressed in full traditional Franciscan habit chats about current affairs on a TV show called Mother Angelica Live. Canada was not among those countries. "There were only two countries in the western hemisphere where we were not
- The educational philosophy of the American Catholic hierarchy in the 20th...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2005 700+ words
0773461604 The educational philosophy of the American Catholic hierarchy in the 20th century; an analysis of Vatican and American official statements. Maher, Michael J. S. Edwin Mellen...
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- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics March 1, 2001 700+ words
...contact research@newberry.org or (312) 255-3666. The American Catholic Philosophical Association invites participation in its...2002, at the following address: ACPA Paper Submissions, American Catholic Philosophical Association, National Office, Administration...
- The Roman Catholics.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Theological Studies Crews, Clyde F. June 1, 1994 700+ words
...complexity at the end of the 20th century. This summary of American Catholic history is superb in its comprehensiveness and detail...encyclopedia-style biographical sketches of major figures in American Catholic history, covers some 170 pages. All the major players...
