The soap opera drama orchestrated by Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson against the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity has everything to do with Olson's heavy-handedness and cruel treatment of women religious. NCR editors hope the Vatican will stop his abusive power play.
The group FRK Advocates has some 1,400 signatures on a petition asking for an investigation into Fr. Richard Kirkham's removal as well as overall abuse of office and power by Bishop Michael Olson.
Distinctly Catholic: I think this is the question the pope wants them to ask: Whence your credibility as a bishop? While there will always be some ministers who are clueless, how could a culture form that such patterns of evil behavior covering up the crimes of the perpetrators were so widespread?
The three-day public portion of the fall general assembly concluded with no final decisions, in part due to a Vatican request to delay votes on proposals until after a February meeting in Rome.
In a tweet, a U.S. bishop said he had spent the night reading a grand jury report detailing seven decades of child sex abuse claims in six Pennsylvania dioceses and "it was like reading a horror book."
Distinctly Catholic: Not once has Paul Ryan wrestled sufficiently with his Catholic faith's social teachings when his ideology or his politics demand he stick to his libertarian precepts.
The U.S. bishops discussed immigration, racism and other social justice issues in Baltimore, but more needs to be done to effect change, say some bishops and observers.
