Father Martin below usefully recommends that everyone look back at the incredible resource which is the report of the National Review Board set up by the USCCB to monitor their own compliance with the provisions adopted at Dallas in 2002 to address the clergy sex abuse crisis Last week the Rev

What a beautiful Mass my husband and I attended in West Hollywood while visiting my cousin and his partner At a church with a vibrant outreach ministry in a mostly gay community this Mass on a sunny Sunday has possibly saved my Catholic faith As the mother of a lesbian daughter I continually st

A powerful editorial by NCR on the sexual abuse crisis sweeping the church nbsp The Holy Father needs to directly answer questions in a credible forum about his role -- as archbishop of Munich 1977-82 as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1982-2005 and as pope 2005-

So the other day I m watching TV and up comes one of those Sprint commercials -- you know the ones where everything is either white black or yellow and there s that quirky uptempo music in the background and we re meeting different adults who are pretty much acting like they re 15 again Usu

In his magnificent book Wartime Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War Paul Fussell writes movingly of a then little-known wartime memoir by E B Sledge called With the Old Breed nbsp As I recall from Fussell s book which I must have read four or five times nbsp the author averr

How could it happen nbsp The terrible revelations of sexual abuse in Ireland and Germany have confirmed the reality that the abuse of children by clergy is not a phenomenon confined to the United States Nor as Kieran Conroy the bishop of Arundel and Brighton in the U K nbsp stated recently n