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McCarrick report called needed step toward accountability, transparency
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, where Theodore McCarrick was ordained a priest and the first abuse allegations were made against him in 2017, credited the survivors of the abuse who approached the New York Archdiocese with their concerns.
USCCB president apologizes to clergy abuse victims as report is released
Expressing gratitude to Pope Francis for the report on defrocked Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop Jose Gomez said the findings mark "another tragic chapter in the church's long struggle to confront the crimes of sexual abuse by clergy."
U.S. Catholics weigh in with mixed reaction on Biden win
"No matter where we might fall on the political spectrum, we must seize this moment as an opportunity to begin to heal the crippling divisions in our great nation," said Wilmington Bishop Francis Malooly.
Tennessee governor gives temporary reprieve to death-row inmate
Pervis Payne, sitting on death row since 1988 for murder, was granted a reprieve of his scheduled Dec. 3 execution. Advocates say his intellectual disability should be grounds for a permanent reprieve.
Biden says once he’s in White House, he’ll ‘unify’ the nation, not divide it
President-elect Joe Biden pledged to hundreds of supporters in Wilmington Nov. 7 that he would be a president "who doesn't see red states and blue states -- only the United States."
Head of U.S. bishops offers Biden congratulations
Archbishop Jose Gomez said in a statement that "Now is the time for our leaders to come together in a spirit of national unity and to commit themselves to dialogue and compromise for the common good."
Sixty years after JFK, nation to get second Catholic president in Biden
Thirty-three men between George Washington and John F. Kennedy served as U.S. president. It took 172 years for a Catholic, Kennedy, to win the presidency, and another 60 years for the second, Joe Biden.
News organizations project Biden elected U.S. president
Major U.S. news organizations projected Democrat Joe Biden will be the 46th president of the United States, making him the second Catholic in the country's history to be elected to the nation's highest office.
Catholics nod to postelection divisions, see much work ahead
The nation's political divide was never going to be solved by the final tally of presidential votes or when the political signs came down, say religious sisters and other Catholic leaders.
Catholics urged to pray for ‘clarity, peace’ after election
The Catholic Medical Association Nov. 5 urged Catholics around the country to pray a novena or rosary in the midst of the unsettled 2020 presidential election and demonstrations in several states.