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UK abuse survivors campaign seeks culture change in the church

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Today in History for Sept. 13: In 1503, artist Michelangelo began work on his "David," which would become one of the most famous sculptures in the world. In 1775, Laura Secord, heroine of the War of 1812, was born. In 1788, the U.S.

Benedict, a pope who shaped his times but didn't tower over them, dies at 95

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who was situated squarely at the centers of power during five decades of epochal change and unprecedented scandal in the global Catholic Church, has died.

Lawyer for anonymous Catholic group previously pushed for investigation into Baltimore archdiocese

A lawyer the Catholic Church is paying to represent a group of people named in the Maryland attorney general’s report into clergy sexual abuse previously urged government investigators to look into the church’s past.

Lawyer for anonymous Catholic group previously pushed for investigation into Baltimore archdiocese

Baltimore archdiocese paying attorney costs for members of group seeking to seal court proceedings in clergy abuse investigation

A spokesperson for the Archdiocese of Baltimore says it's paying, at least in part, the fees of two attorneys representing people who are not accused of sexual abuse, but are named in a report from the Maryland Attorney General’s Office.

What we need is another Cluniac reform

By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | May 11, 2021 Today the Catholic Church celebrates (as an optional feast) the holy abbots of Cluny. After morning Mass at a Benedictine abbey, I find myself thinking about the Cluniac reform. Among the troubles that the Church faced in that era were simony and clerical immorality. Hmmm. History often repeats itself, but as circumstances change, things may look different the second time around. Are we not in dire need of a new Cluniac reform today? You will grant me, I trust, that immorality among the clergy is an issue today; the headlines of the past decade leave little doubt about that. It is a different sort of immorality—not many priests are taking common-law wives—but it is rampant.

This papal reform is a blockbuster

The reforms that Pope Francis announced this week may be among the most significant— and best— moves of his pontificate.

Audit: Federal dollars cushioned Catholic church's pandemic struggles in West Virginia

Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston Like other churches across the country, the Catholic church in West Virginia struggled during the coronavirus pandemic to keep doors open or continue its usual community support until being bolstered by the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Act. The Wheeling-Catholic diocese drew down $1,996,372 from the federal program meant to help businesses keep their workforce employed during the covid-19 crisis. The federal money also went to diocese rent, utilities and interest on mortgages and existing debt. Mark Brennan “Learning that religious organizations were eligible for the federal government’s Payroll Protection Program, the Diocese applied for that relief and received it, not only for diocesan operations but for most of its parishes and schools,” Mark Brennan, bishop of the Wheeling-Catholic diocese wrote in a letter accompanying a financial audit.

After the McCarrick Report, an odd episcopal appointment

By Phil Lawler ( bio - articles - email ) | Dec 09, 2020 What’s wrong with this picture? Last month the Vatican released the long-awaited McCarrick Report, providing some (but not all) details about the clerical culture that protected the former cardinal, and serial abuser, Theodore McCarrick. Last week Pope Francis named Bishop Michael Fisher, an auxiliary of the Washington, DC archdiocese, to head the Diocese of Buffalo. The Buffalo diocese has been battered for months by legal charges involving cover-ups of sexual abuse. Bishop Fisher comes from the archdiocese that McCarrick once headed, and served on the chancery staff under the disgraced former cardinal. He was ordained as a bishop by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who resigned after accusations that he had covered up for McCarrick—and covered up for other clerics during a previous assignment as Bishop of Pittsburgh.