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Pope Francis meets with the leadership of the Chilean bishops' conference at the Vatican on Jan. 14 to talk about the sex abuse crisis affecting the church in Chile. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
The pope wants the February summit “to be an assembly of pastors, not an academic conference—a meeting characterized by prayer and discernment, a catechetical and working gathering.”
FaithNews Analysis
Colleen Dulle
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” we explore the topic of women deacons.
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FaithNews
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Included on the list is John T. Ryan, S.J., who from 1989 to 1994 was an associate editor for development at America.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano wrote a letter to McCarrick that was published Monday on an Italian blog, Vigano's way of communicating after he went into hiding following his bombshell accusations against the pope in August.
FaithNews
Nicole Winfield - Associated Press
The key accuser in the sex abuse case against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has met with New York City prosecutors.
FaithVideo
America Staff

The Catholic Journal Commonweal published an extensively reported piece dissecting a grand jury report released last summer, which alleges widespread sexual abuse by priests in Pennsylvania and a coverup of that abuse by bishops.

Now Peter Steinfels, a former religion reporter and columnist for the New York Times and a former editor in chief of Commonweal, has analyzed the more than 1,000 pages of the report and he believes the public has been misled. He discusses his findings in the Developing Story program above with America's national correspondent Michael O'Loughlin.