Pamphlet offers tips designed for parents and other caregivers to talk openly with young and older kids about high-profile news, particularly related to sexual abuse. Information was prepared by Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children Training, which provides in-depth learning, tools and practice guidelines to help adults prevent, recognize and react responsibly to child sexual […]
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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops outlined plans on September 19, 2018, to address the abuse crisis, after coming under fire for their inability to “police their own.” Vowing to “heal and protect with every bit of the strength God provides us,” the U.S. Bishops’ new strategy includes establishing a third-party confidential reporting system […]
As we approach the three-month anniversary of Theodore McCarrick’s removal from ministry in the Catholic Church; the one-month anniversary of Archbishop Vigano’s stark testimony alleging cover-up by Church hierarchy of Priest sexual abuses; and the passage of five weeks post the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, many Catholics still harbor the dreadful apprehension of when/where will the […]
Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of Chilean Bishops Carlos Pellegrin Barrera of San Bartolome de Chillan and Cristian Contreras Molina of San Felipe. Both bishops, who are currently 60 and 71 years old, were among the thirty-four Chilean Bishops tendering their resignations following a summit of their entire delegation with Pope Francis at the […]
As we all know, for a number of years the Catholic Church has been facing another “crisis” other than the headline-grabbing sexual abuse scandal – the mass exodus of young people from our faith. Recent statistics point to the fact that the median age for young people to leave the church has now dropped to […]
Archbishop Malcolm McMahon opened the “Adoremus” National Eucharistic Congress last weekend by expressing the hope that Liverpool would be “a place of welcome where you feel at home, not just in the city, but at home in Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.” The September 7-9, 2018 Congress marked the first time the event was celebrated in […]
