Taking a break from vacation for this public-service announcement: Don't miss this forceful talk by Bishop Arthur Serratelli, bishop of the diocese of Paterson, N.J., to the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, at their annual June meeting at the Wharton School in Philadelphia.  Bishop Serratelli, who has the important job of Chairman of the Committee on Divine Worship and Chairman of the Ad hoc Sub-Committee for the Review of Scripture Translations (read: the USCCB's point man on the new Mass translations) addressed three hot-button topics in a morning session: the new translations (which he feels are long overdue, for reasons he explicates), the reasons behind the sex abuse crisis (which he feels stemmed largely from the general moral laxity of the 1960s) and the media's treatment of the church (which he feels is unfair).  His talk, now available on The Leadership Roundtable's Web site [3] is, as they say in the trade, "unbuttoned." 

Most Rev. Arthur Serratelli [4] from The Leadership Roundtable [5] on Vimeo [6].

James Martin, SJ