Every doctrine or practice familiar to Catholics has a history of its own, and some official expressions of church teaching are quite recent, such as the...
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Adults could learn a thing or two if only they listened more when young people of different faiths get together to talk. One recent Monday morning a Catholic...
"It's a zoo," sighs Father Donald B. Cozzens, who had been hoping for a quiet sabbatical to finish writing his next book. Instead, the...
Making it through the dark night of the priest pedophilia crisis and arriving at truth and reconciliation requires an unflinching examination of our...
Preventing child sexual abuse begins with talking to your children about it. Dolores Curran provides some strategies to help. This formerly confident and...
Then head of the National Review Board, Frank Keating shared his view of the church's response to the sex abuse crisis with U.S. Catholic in 2003...
A religion educator explains the progams aimed at preventing and detecting sexual abuse in this article from 2006. Five years ago I was asked to teach a...
In an essay from 2005, one mother shares the lifetime of suffering beneath the clergy sex-abuse headlines. I am a mother of a son who was sexually abused...
The Green Zone Directed by Paul Greengrass (Universal Pictures, 2010) The Greek dramatist Aeschylus wrote, "In war, truth is the first casualty." But...
The editors interview Father Robert Barron. "For too long we've had a preferential option for mediocrity in the priesthood," laments Father...
