I shifted nervously in my seat as the interviewer scanned my résumé. A newly minted graduate, I began to make my case as to why I’d be the best pick for the...
Sex abuse
On a beautiful day in the early summer of 2018, I was puttering around my apartment and getting ready for a parish visit. I was content in my work at an...
It was the early 2000s. The stories of sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy were making headlines everywhere and over and over again. Horrifying stories of the...
In the not too distant past, the sexual abuse of children was not seen for the terrible, unacceptable thing that it is. Often when it happened, not only in our...
Almost a year after the Vatican removed now disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick from ministry and nearly five months after U.S. bishops met in...
Over the past several years, and again in recent months, I have found myself in church sanctuaries and academic auditoriums engaging in various events...
For Catholics, the summer of 2018 was dominated by the Pennsylvania grand jury report and revelations about Theodore McCarrick. As the summer of 2019 begins, I...
In the aftermath of the latest wave of revelations about clerical sexual abuse and episcopal malfeasance in the United States, now more than ever, Catholics...
This summer the revelations of past assault on children and harassment committed by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick roiled the U.S. church. Other exposés of abuses...
Nicholas Cafardi is a former chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ National Review Board for the Protection of Children and Young People. 1...
