If you were a student in a first-year Communications class and you were asked to devise a strategy for taking a situation say a scandal involving the clerical abuse of minors and make the situation worse to devise ways to add fuel to the flames rather than to squelch them to present yourself as

News in the UK has been dominated this weekend by the religious equivalent of a diplomatic row In comments to be broadcast tomorrow on a BBC radio programme the Archbishop of Canterbury said the Church in Ireland had lost all credibility over its handling of sex abuse nbsp The comment provoked

Cambridge MA I am sure that by now regular readers of In All Things have figured out that I am not particularly well-connected in ecclesial circles and certainly have no inside scoop on the Vatican But I can use the internet and read And so when I was disheartened by the latest uproar at the V

This year the religious symbolism of Easter could not be more resonant for the Catholic Church Each day from Good Friday to Easter Sunday offers the Church a profound spiritual message as it confronts the horrific effects of the crimes of clerical sexual abuse which have convulsed the church fir

Yesterday we attended a Good Friday justice walk modeled on the Stations of the Cross nbsp Living in a new town I had hoped that it would provide an entry into the suffering struggles and salvation of this place nbsp It was sponsored by a broad coalition of local churches and justice groups

Good Friday is too solemn a day for blogging especially about something as ephemeral as politics But today with the Church besieged by scandal I hope that pastors who are called upon to preach will preach about the scandal of the Cross We have lost that sense of the Cross When we see a cross a