For TJ Williams, being Black, gay and heavily involved in the church is not a contradiction or an identity of great complexity.
Homophobes in the Black church, he said, “have forsaken the legacy of the Black Church” as a pillar
Cardinal Authorized Paying Abusers
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Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York authorized payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests as an incentive for them to agree to
Vatican’s assessment of LCWR about fear, not doctrine
COMMENTARY
The Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith’s April 18 doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious is not about doctrine. It is not primarily about protecting the faith or ensuring an ecclesiology of communion, no matter how
The butler did it!
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Vatican leak inquiry: Pope’s butler named as suspect
The Pope’s butler has been formally named as a suspect in the Vatican’s inquiry into a series of media leaks from the Church’s highest
Dionne: Is Catholic spring on horizon?
There is a healthy struggle brewing among the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops.
A previously silent group, upset over conservative colleagues defining the church’s public posture and eagerly picking fights with President Obama, has had enough.
The headlines this week were
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… Catholic Clergy Sexual Abuse In The U.S. Context And Causes
COMMENTARY
CATHOLIC CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE IN THE U.S.
CONTEXT AND CAUSES
A.W.RICHARD SIPE
Santa Clara University
11 May 2012
The context of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic bishops and priests is the culture of the priesthood. Roman Catholic bishops and
Prosecutor: Pa. diocese ‘disgraceful,’ ‘criminal’
PHILADELPHIA — After eight weeks of wrenching testimony, Philadelphia prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the trial of a Roman Catholic church official accused of helping bury complaints that priests were raping and molesting children.
Monsignor William Lynn is the
Cardinal’s presence felt at Pa. church-abuse trial
Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua died just weeks before his longtime aide went on trial in the alleged cover-up of sexual assaults by priests within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Yet Bevilacqua is very much the ghost inside courtroom 304 at