The Assumption

Will Pennsylvania be the Wake-Up Call We Finally Heed?

. . .having read 357 pages of the report so far, my heart howls to heaven & at the walls of my church.  I want to cry, “Mountains, fall on us” for such systemic failures to protect the innocent & stop people from perpetuating evil.  How pervasive is this problem, if these are only the ones we know about in New Jersey, in Pennsylvania, in Chile, in Washington, D.C., in Boston?  What about the ones we don’t know about?  How deep is the filth?  What about all the dioceses where a grand jury hasn’t done this sort of work. . .

by Sherry Antonetti,

of the National Catholic Register

Quæritur: Your Questions Weigh Heavily – Fr. Z’s Blog
My Heart is Broken – Joan Lewis, Joan’s Rome
An Open Letter to Our Priests – Steve Skojec, One Peter 5
Priests Oriented Toward Males & The New Crisis – William M. Briggs Ph.D., SttS!
On Necks that Need Millstones Around Them – Alan Jacobs, Snakes and Ladders
McCarrick, Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report & Freedom of the Church – R. Garnett J.D.
Catholics Express Despair, Disbelief, Anger at New Abuse Revelations – CNS via Crux
‘The Murder of Souls’ – Julia Duin, Get Religion
A Reminder of the Toll of Failure – Matthew E. Bunson, National Catholic Register
For a Catholic Church in Crisis: Mary, Undoer of Knots – Fr. Gordon J. MacRae, ThSW
Prayer is Always an Opportunity to Rising to the Occasion – G. Garnica, Catholic Stand
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