Abuse Crisis

The bishop of Albany, New York, said Monday that a commission of lay Catholics should be formed to investigate claims of abuse or misconduct made against bishops. “What is needed now is an independent commission led by well-respected, faithful lay leaders who are beyond reproach, people

Dear Troubled Catholics, I have never seen so many “ordinary Catholics”—who usually never follow or hear about Church news—as deeply troubled as I have seen them in response to the recent revelations about the retired archbishop of Washington, DC. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was asked by

ALBANY, N.Y. — Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of Albany wrote to the clerics of his local Church Sunday, saying that abuse of authority and sexual abuse by clerics is, more than a crisis of policies and procedures, a spiritual crisis. His comments come amid a scandal

  NEW YORK — The Archdiocese of New York announced Wednesday that an investigation it conducted into allegations of sexual abuse against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who oversaw multiple major U.S. dioceses, has found the accusations to be “credible and substantiated.” In the June 20 statement, Cardinal Timothy

VATICAN CITY — At the close of their three-day meeting with Pope Francis, all the bishops of Chile asked victims of the country’s abuse scandal for forgiveness and presented written resignations to the Pope, who must decide whether to accept or reject them. In a