Fr. Daniel Horan: Just as racism is a white problem, sexual abuse in the church is a clergy problem. White people need to name and confront "white fragility," and we clergy need to name and confront "clerical fragility."
NCR Editorial: This time, it has to be different. Bishops, the prolonged abuse scandal would suggest that you've not done very well taking stock of yourselves.
A "powerful, new moment in the ongoing crisis" of abuse and authority exploitation in the Catholic Church will be the focus of an Oct. 9 panel at Santa Clara University.
We say: The four points outlined by leadership of the bishops' conference are, for the most part, good beginnings. But they won't lead us to the full truth-telling that is needed.
Commentary: Frustrated that the church has drifted so far from the mission of Christ? Do something about it. Laity should unite and petition their bishops to address the abuse crisis head-on.
The U.S. bishops' call for an apostolic visitation and lay-involved investigations into abuse and cover-ups was called a "good start," but at least one former National Review Board member called it "too little, too late."
Fr. Desmond Rossi, a priest of the Albany, New York, Diocese, has won a new hearing as the Archdiocese of Newark will investigate a pastor in New Jersey who he says sexually assaulted him.
Just Catholic: Fearing a bishop's power, no one wants to say anything. And it's not just clerics whose cries are muffled. It's lay employees and religious sisters who need their jobs.
Incremental changes to the U.S. bishops' guiding document on addressing sexual abuse of minors by clergy were approved June 14 during the prelates' annual spring assembly.
