McCarrick report highlights weaknesses in process for vetting bishops
A questionnaire used to identify possible bishops seemed more focused on personal connections than on raising red flags regarding inappropriate or criminal behavior.
Report offers transparency that laity ‘have rightly demanded,’ archbishop says
Baltimore Archbishop William Lori was among a number of U.S. prelates reacting to release of the McCarrick report and praising sexual abuse victims' persistence in demanding an investigation.
Vatican’s WWII archives reveal complex picture, ‘flawed characters,’ says expert
In a Nov. 9 webinar, scholar Suzanne Brown-Fleming said 16 million newly unsealed documents on wartime Pope Pius XII will spark "really honest conversations" on the Catholic Church's response to Nazism.
World Day of Poor initiatives adapting to pandemic
Even during a global pandemic, the Nov. 15 observance in Rome will be a time for parishes worldwide to highlight the importance of charity and spiritual comfort for those in need, said a Vatican official.
N.J. bishops’ letters helped pave McCarrick’s path to power
Three of the state's four bishops did not tell what they knew, according to the McCarrick report. That has led to a lack of trust in church leaders among priests and seminarians, said one priest and a seminary instructor.
6 ways to approach the McCarrick report
An editorial invites a charitable reading of the report to understand why individuals -- especially Pope John Paul II -- made the choices they did to advance McCarrick into positions of power.
Banned Polish cardinal unconscious in hospital
Cardinal Henryk Gulbinowicz, 97, had been barred by the Vatican Nov. 6 from all public appearances and ordered to compensate his alleged victims of sexual abuse. His was one of a string of investigations in the Polish church.
Report’s look into U.S. abuse scandal digs up pain, hope in transparency
The report on former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick shows why it's important to have a strong presence from those outside the closed clerical system to hold leaders accountable, said bishops and lay people.
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.
McCarrick report documents repeated lack of serious investigation
Although dogged for years by rumors of sexual impropriety, defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick rose in the Catholic hierarchy because of his personal contacts, protestations of his innocence and a lack of church officials' diligence, according to a long-anticipated Vatican report.