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Work to purify church begins with ‘you and me,’ Archbishop Gomez says
Every "time of crisis" in the Catholic Church "is a crisis of saints," Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in his homily during the 14th annual Los Angeles Catholic Prayer Breakfast Sept. 18.
N.J. cardinal won’t attend synod, asks to remain home at ‘time of crisis’
"After the revelations of the past summer, I could not see myself absent for a month from our archdiocese and from you, the people entrusted to my care," Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin said.
Detroit Archdiocese welcomes investigation into Michigan dioceses
Michigan's attorney general has opened an investigation into the handling of sexual abuse by clergy in all of Michigan's seven Catholic dioceses, as well as any attempts to cover up those claims dating back to the 1950s.
Catholics believe in God but ‘don’t believe in us,’ Miami archbishop says
The crisis the Catholic Church is facing is not "a crisis of faith" but is "a crisis of leadership," Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski told archdiocesan clergy. People "need to be able to trust us."
‘God has not abandoned us,’ says survivor of clergy sex abuse
More than 700 people in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis attended a holy hour Sept. 15 in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the church. They sought to answer the question, "Where is God?"
Congress urged to finish work on opioid legislation
The opioid addiction crisis in the United States is too big to allow Congress to let politics derail passage of a bill to fight opioid abuse, according to Bishop Frank Dewane of Florida.
#WhyImCatholic movement aims to share hope at difficult time for church
As U.S. Catholics "struggle with the painful issues facing the church today," particularly the abuse crisis, Catholic Extension "recognizes that it is a difficult time to be Catholic."
Continue to be an evangelizing church, nuncio tells Encuentro delegates
Archbishop Christophe Pierre encouraged Hispanic Catholic leaders and bishops to continue working toward being an evangelizing church by seeking an encounter with Christ and taking initiative while accompanying those on the peripheries.
Encuentro opens with procession, papal message, prayers for abuse victims
The Sept. 20-23 event is a gathering of more than 3,200 Hispanic Catholic leaders and about 125 bishops from across the country.
Retired Green Bay auxiliary bishop withdraws from public ministry
In a letter dated Sept. 14 and addressed to Bishop David L. Ricken, the head of the diocese, Bishop Robert F. Morneau stated that he failed to report to authorities an incident of priest sexual abuse of a minor in 1979.