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Priest Sex Abuse Scandal
A Time of Reckoning
January-February 2022The priestly sex-abuse scandal will bring the Church in America to the same sad state as her counterpart in France: discredited and depopulated, a shell of her former self.
VIEW ARTICLESexual Abuse: A Personal Reflection
September 2021Does the hierarchy understand how much victims suffer? Could they even imagine what it must be like to have a child subjected to clerical abuse?
VIEW ARTICLEDispatch from the Dead Letter Office
May 2021The McCarrick report is a historical accounting that doesn’t hold anyone accountable, and it will have no practical consequences.
VIEW ARTICLESpendthrift Shepherds & Pervert Priests: Where Are They Now?
June 2020Here we follow-up on some disgraced prelates and their inner circles who did the dirty work of covering fraudulent, criminal behavior.
VIEW ARTICLEA Deficit of Heroes
May 2020We must maintain an emotional distance even from those who project an aura of holiness. Often, God’s holy ones are known only to Him.
VIEW ARTICLEMillion-Dollar Bishops
March 2020It’s no coincidence that financial corruption walks hand in hand with sexual immorality. Where you find one, you’ll often find the other.
VIEW ARTICLEA “Deeper Understanding” of the Priesthood?
November 2019No temporal or civilizational events can override the sacramental necessity of the Catholic priesthood’s being reserved to men.
VIEW ARTICLEFather Figuring
July-August 2019The Catholic Church's sex-abuse problem is caused by predators who wear clerical collars and who are protected by a clericalist culture.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Hollywood Scandal Behind the Clerical Scandal
March 2019U.S. media and the American judicial system will gladly go after a high-ranking Catholic priest or bishop but will run cover for powerful Hollywood directors and actors.
VIEW ARTICLEWuerl, the Flesh & the Devil
March 2019The whole Wuerl saga goes to show — yet again — that many of the leaders of the Church aren’t so much interested in professing the truth as they are in protecting their prestige.
VIEW ARTICLELetter to a Friend on Church Scandal
January-February 2019The Church still teaches everything taught by the first generation of Christians; it still conforms to the specifications laid down by Jesus for His Church.
VIEW ARTICLEAn Outcast Among Organization Men
December 2018Few are the churchmen who are willing to speak publicly about the root cause of the sex-abuse crisis: the scourge of homosexuality in the priesthood.
VIEW ARTICLEEcce Papa Franciscus!
November 2018The Pope has convened a summit for February with the presidents of all bishops’ conferences to discuss "protection of minors."
VIEW ARTICLEAt Last, a Reckoning?
October 2018Archbishop Viganò has cracked open the Vatican cone of silence and exposed what might be a Church-wide cover-up of McCarrick’s crimes.
VIEW ARTICLEUncle Ted McCarrick: Queen Pin of the Lavender Mafia
September 2018Many, many priests and bishops knew Theodore McCarrick was a serial molester and yet, somehow, McCarrick got the ultimate appointment to the Archdiocese of Washington D.C., and was elevated to the rank of cardinal.
VIEW ARTICLEA Loss of Nerve?
October 2008If the Pope is serious about curbing clerical sexual abuse before it happens, then it is high time he took off the pastoral gloves.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Perennial Crisis of Clerical Sexual Abuse
July-August 2008An attitude found among much of the laity is that an abused child will simply "bounce back" from grave sexual abuse once he grows up.
VIEW ARTICLEBlaming the Victim -- Again
June 2008The underlying attitude amongst most bishops that fostered the environment of abuse, secrecy, and clerical privilege still remains.
VIEW ARTICLEWhy the Church Should Not Oppose Extending Statutes of Limitation
June 2008Instruments that were created for a mission morph into institutions directed toward their own preservation.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Pastoral Problem of Priests in Prison
April 2008"Ordinary" criminals -- murderers and thieves -- still retain a sense of moral outrage against the hideous evil of child sexual abuse.
VIEW ARTICLEThrough a Crucible to Spring
April 2008After my attempts to contact Church officials had been rebuffed, I asked a lawyer to send a letter on his firm's official letterhead to my local bishop.
VIEW ARTICLENothing Distinctive About the Church
April 2008The U.S. bishops are relieved that the Church's record on the sexual abuse of minors is no worse than that of our society as a whole.
VIEW ARTICLEPaul Shanley, Pervert Priest
May 2005Despite Shanley's repeated warning, "If you tell, no one will believe you," the jury of 12 men and women believe Ron.
VIEW ARTICLEMy Soul-Shattering Experience in the Seminary
May 2004I threatened to break the nose of one priest after he propositioned me, but word got around. I, not the homosexual, was made out to be the bad guy.
VIEW ARTICLEPriestly Pedophilia: Soul-Murders or Merely "Incidents"?
January 2004Bishop Moynihan, your Freudian slip is showing.
VIEW ARTICLEThis Man Has No Shame
November 2003Yep, we're talking about the disgraced Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland.
VIEW ARTICLEDevious "Gay" Priests
July/August 2003An (anonymous) homosexual priest "speaks out" in Commonweal.
VIEW ARTICLEWhat About Predator Lesbian Nuns?
June 2003It would appear that sexual license in women's religious orders is much worse than among priests.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Catholic Bishops & the Crisis of 2002
April 2003One function of the Catholic bishop is to insist upon the doctrinal integrity of the whole of the Church's teaching. Today's bishops have too often forgotten this.
VIEW ARTICLEWhen Minimizing the Priestly Sex Scandals Boomerangs
March 2003Tom Hoopes and the Register are trying mighty hard to pull the wool over our eyes.
VIEW ARTICLECan We Please Change the Subject!
January 2003Forget the scandals? (Uh, not so fast, pal!)
VIEW ARTICLE"A Regime of Hypocrisy & Indifference"
November 2002Can the sorry performance of many of our U.S. bishops with regard to the priestly sex scandals be traced to a "culture of silence"?
VIEW ARTICLEGoodbye, "New Evangelization"
November 2002Fr. Neuhaus thinks the whole priest scandal thing can just be brushed off.
VIEW ARTICLEPriest-Psychologist Hangs Himself
October 2002If anyone doubts the veracity of Goodbye, Good Men, just contemplate Fr. Franco Imoda's words.
VIEW ARTICLEKilling Michael Rose
September 2002Why were moderate Catholic papers such as Our Sunday Visitor so desperate to discredit Michael Rose’s book Goodbye, Good Men?
VIEW ARTICLEThe Glorious Shame of The Catholic Church
September 2002These are times of chastisement for the Catholic Church. Christ will simply not allow His wayward Bride to become a slut.
VIEW ARTICLEThe Register Steps Into the Ring
September 2002Why is David Pearson "hopping mad" at Michael Rose and the NOR?
VIEW ARTICLEShow & Tell for Priests
July/August 2002America magazine blames the scandals on "a repressive clerical culture."
VIEW ARTICLESheer Effrontery
July/August 2002This dude has figured out how to solve the priestly sex crisis. His humble recommendation: ordain dudettes.
VIEW ARTICLEDesperately Jesuitical
July/August 2002Fr. James Keenan, S.J., is worried that the "scapegoat" for the priestly sex scandals will be "gay priests."
VIEW ARTICLEUnderstanding the Pedophilia Crisis in the Boston Priesthood
June 2002The foolish policy of playing musical chairs with pedophile priests was not Cardinal Law’s to start with. He inherited it.
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