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Nothing Distinctive About the Church

The 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.

The Pastoral Problem of Priests in Prison

"Ordinary" criminals -- murderers and thieves -- still retain a sense of moral outrage against the hideous evil of child sexual abuse.

Through a Crucible to Spring

A SURVIVOR'S STORY

Lindy Morelli

Blaming the Victim -- Again

The underlying attitude amongst most bishops that fostered the environment of abuse, secrecy, and clerical privilege still remains.

Why the Church Should Not Oppose Extending Statutes of Limitation

AN INVERSION OF PRIORITIES

Charles Molineaux

The Perennial Crisis of Clerical Sexual Abuse

Paul Bower

Review of Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

A Loss of Nerve?

If the Pope is serious about curbing clerical sexual abuse before it happens, then it is high time he took off the pastoral gloves.

Paul Shanley, Pervert Priest

JUSTICE IS DONE

Theresa Marie Moreau

Priestly Pedophilia: Soul-Murders or Merely "Incidents"?

Bishop Moynihan, your Freudian slip is showing.

Can We Please Change the Subject!

Forget the scandals? (Uh, not so fast, pal!)

When Minimizing the Priestly Sex Scandals Boomerangs

Tom Hoopes and the Register are trying mighty hard to pull the wool over our eyes.

The Catholic Bishops & the Crisis of 2002

THE FOLLY OF GOING BACK TO "BUSINESS AS USUAL"

Kenneth D. Whitehead

What About Predator Lesbian Nuns?

It would appear that sexual license in women's religious orders is much worse than among priests.

Devious "Gay" Priests

An (anonymous) homosexual priest "speaks out" in Commonweal.

This Man Has No Shame

Yep, we're talking about the disgraced Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland.

Understanding the Pedophilia Crisis In the Boston Priesthood

THE ISSUE IS HOMOSEXUALITY

G. Thomas Fitzpatrick

Show & Tell for Priests

America magazine blames the scandals on "a repressive clerical culture."

Desperately Jesuitical

Fr. James Keenan, S.J., is worried that the "scapegoat" for the priestly sex scandals will be "gay priests."

Sheer Effrontery

This dude has figured out how to solve the priestly sex crisis. His humble recommendation: ordain dudettes.

The Glorious Shame of The Catholic Church

EDITORIAL

Dale Vree

Priest-Psychologist Hangs Himself

If anyone doubts the veracity of Goodbye, Good Men, just contemplate Fr. Franco Imoda's words.

"A Regime of Hypocrisy & Indifference"

Can the sorry performance of many of our U.S. bishops with regard to the priestly sex scandals be traced to a "culture of silence"?

Goodbye, "New Evangelization"

Fr. Neuhaus thinks the whole priest scandal thing can just be brushed off.

Queen Pin of the Lavender Mafia

Many, 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.

At Last, a Reckoning on the Abuse Scandal?

Archbishop Viganò exposes a Church-wide cover-up

Pieter Vree

Archbishop Viganò has cracked open the Vatican cone of silence and exposed what might be a Church-wide cover-up of McCarrick’s crimes.