In a Nov. 16 news conference, the organization Ending Clergy Abuse called on the U.S. prelates meeting in Baltimore to focus less on who can take Communion and instead do more to end abuses by clergy.
As the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opened a Day of Prayer at the Fall Bishops General Assembly Nov. 12, John McKeon was the first to walk a path along Aliceanna Street outside the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront.
A liturgical canonist and teacher who had admitted abusing a minor while serving as an associate pastor in the United States is no longer teaching at the Canadian pontifical university where he had been a full professor.
John Huels, who has admitted he abused Michael Bland as a teenager, continues work as a liturgical canonist and a full professor at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada.
Matt Flynn, a prominent Wisconsin Democrat running for governor, has come under attack by critics who say he participated in allowing abusive priests to continue in ministry and for aggressively pursuing legal fees against their victims who sued the Milwaukee Archdiocese.
