Happy Transfiguration Day McCarrick Title: The One Who Sees Us Through Disaster Author: Father Mark White Publisher: Father Mark White blog, Date: 06AUG2020 Happy Transfiguration Day. This coming Sunday, at Holy Mass we will read… The boat was already a considerable distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Shortly
Episcopal Conferences Seem Paralysed Title: Reflections on sixty years as a priest Author: Eric Hodgens Publisher: John Menadue – Pearls and Irritations Date: 31JUL2020 The more reflective component of the Church is crying out for imaginative leadership on the ministry crisis and institutional re-organisation. But episcopal conferences seem paralysed. Ordained in 1960 my major anniversaries
New Orleans Clergy Abuse Title: New Orleans priest continued serving 13 years after abuse claim landed him in treatment Author: David Hammer and Ramon Antonio Vargas, WWL-TV & Staff Writer Publisher: NOLA.com Date: 23JUL2020 Sixteen years ago, Ricky Monsour spoke up for the first time about how he was groomed and molested in his boyhood
The Cruel Massachusetts Cesspool Title: The Cruel Massachusetts Cesspool Author: Father Mark White Publisher: Father Mark White Blog Date: 18JUL2020 [A long and complicated story, dear reader. And painful. But true. And important.] In volume III of her historical study Rite of Sodomy, Randy Engel describes how she began an extended personal correspondence with an inmate
Plenary Broken Promises Australia Title: A Plenary of Broken Promises? Author: Gail Freyne Publisher: John Menadue-Pearls & Irritations Date: 17JUN2020 When the people in the pews get so restless that evidence of deceptive dealing at the top of the Catholic Church in Australia starts falling off the back of trucks these same leaders should know