26 April AD 2024

THVRSDAY AFTERNOON EDITION

Theodore Cardinal McCarrick (Credit: Screen Shot of NBC video via Get Religion)

The Scandal of Theodore Cardinal McCarrick & Why No Major Media Outed Him

. . .numerous journalists – & Catholics – knew that Cardinal McCarrick has been accused of sexual abuse for decades & that he cultivated male seminarians for sexual purposes for years.  Wednesday’s news was no secret to many of us.  It is one of the great untold stories of the religion beat. . .

by Julia Duin,

of Get Religion

Live Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament – Adorecast
Mark Shea: Ever the Voice of Reason – Donald R. McClarey J.D., The American Catholic
Time is on My Side: Revised Liturgy of the Hours One Step Closer – Adoremus Bulletin
Cardinal McCarrick: What Did the Vatican Know & When? – J.F. Desmond, NC Register
Archbishop Lefebvre’s Surprising Legacy – Damian Thompson, Catholic Herald
Ghent Altarpiece May Have Just Been Solved – J.P. Mauro, Aleteia
Archaeological Finds Reveal the Horrific Reality of Crucifixion – Jessica McAfee, epcPw
The West is Rediscovering the Sacred – Matthew Schmitz, Catholic Herald
Sin Redefined in the PBS Detective Series Unforgotten – Kenneth Colston, Crisis Mgzn
Will Ireland’s Catholic Hospitals Defy Varadkar? – Jon Anderson, Catholic Herald
The Atlantic’s Post Should Make a Consensus that Transgenders is Adults-Only – Fdrlst
Imperial Treasury of Vienna: Precious Vestments from the House of Habsburg – LAJ
For Those Who Claim Church Teaching on Abortion is of Recent Origin – Fr. R. Heilman
Fertility & Toxicity – Lyman Stone, First Things
Iraqi Sister Who Fled Islamic State is Denied Entry to Britain for 2nd Time – Cthlc Hrld
Time to Preach to the Non-Converted on Abortion – Filip Mazurczak, The Cthlc Thing
A Guild of All Souls for the Ordinariates? – K. Greenlee, The Anglicanorum Coetibus Scty
Self-Creation or God’s Creation? Mistaken Identities & Nietzsche’s Madman – Blake PhD
What is the Six Sundays Devotion in Honor of St. Aloysius Gonzaga? – P. Kosloski, Alet.
Remembering Thomas Craughwell, Faithful Storyteller – P.G. Kengor Ph.D., AmSpect
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