Minding the Church
ArticleMinding the ChurchWhistleblowers in the Church are prophetic and necessary. The hierarchy should treat them accordingly.By Brian DevlinOctober 20, 2021ClericalismLaitySexual-abuse Crisis
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ArticleThe InstitutionalistDid Pope Benedict mishandle sex-abuse cases as archbishop of Munich?By Arthur McCaffreyMarch 12, 2022Pope Benedict XVISexual-abuse Crisis
View ArticleHow Will the SBC Handle Scandal?
ArticleHow Will the SBC Handle Scandal?As the Southern Baptist Convention faces sexual-abuse allegations, it should learn from the mistakes of the Catholic Church.By Jacob LupferMay 26,...
View ArticleThe Abuse Scandal & Synodality
ArticleThe Abuse Scandal & SynodalityIn the United States, there is a growing gap between Catholic academia and the institutional Church, one that hinders our ability to understand the sex-abuse...
View ArticlePilgrim Weakland
ArticlePilgrim WeaklandIn 2002, the recently deceased Archbishop Rembert Weakland resigned amid a sex scandal. The end of his ecclesiastical career was the start of a spiritual journey.By Margaret...
View ArticleWho Knew?
ArticleWho Knew?What permits the injustice of Church sexual abuse? We can learn a lot by looking at how knowledge flows within the Church—and where it is blocked.By Bernard G. PrusakOctober 10,...
View ArticleWho Can We Forgive?
ArticleWho Can We Forgive?Should Catholics hope to forgive abusers like Theodore McCarrick? Why should we ever want to?By Adam A. J. DeVilleOctober 16, 2022Sexual-abuse CrisisReligionBishops
View ArticleBenedict’s Untimely Meditation
ArticleBenedict’s Untimely MeditationHis 2019 essay departs not only from the current pope’s analysis of the sex-abuse crisis, but also from that of almost everyone else who has studied it. By Massimo...
View ArticlePapal Fiction
ArticlePapal Fiction From 2019: The imaginary encounter between Ratzinger and Bergoglio is imaginative, and emotionally satisfying. But we need to remember that it never happened.By Rita FerroneJanuary...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI
ArticleThe Legacy of Pope Benedict XVIA collection of Commonweal’s writings on the life and legacy of Pope Benedict XVI.By The EditorsJanuary 1, 2023Pope Benedict XVIVatican IISexual-abuse CrisisTheology
View ArticlePope Benedict XVI Dies
ArticlePope Benedict XVI DiesJoseph Ratzinger was a brilliant theologian whose anti-progressive views became inseparable from his persona. Few committed Catholics will be indifferent about him.By...
View ArticleThe Church’s Memory Problems
ArticleThe Church’s Memory ProblemsWhat seems like a never-ending state of crisis has paralyzed Catholicism. This is not the Church of mercy that Francis has been talking about for the past ten...
View ArticleA ‘Toxic Nucleus’ Within the Church
ArticleA ‘Toxic Nucleus’ Within the ChurchA comprehensive investigation into the L’Arche movement demonstrates that Jean Vanier fostered a psychologically crippling and spiritually depraved...
View ArticleNo One Listened
ArticleNo One ListenedIn her account of St. Joseph orphanage, Christine Kenneally patiently and unflinchingly stitches together a brutal record of abuse.By Helene StapinskiMay 30,...
View ArticleThe Summit on Abuse, Five Years Later
ArticleThe Summit on Abuse, Five Years LaterFive years after Pope Francis’s summit on clerical sex abuse, has anything changed?By Massimo FaggioliFebruary 14, 2024Pope FrancisTheologySexual-abuse Crisis
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