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Cardinal Sean O’Malley Meets With 300 Priests Amid Catholic Church Scandals

August 28, 2018 at 6:17 pm

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The Boston Pilot

Vigano Testimony Receives Mixed Response from US Bishops

Washington D.C., Aug 27, 2018 CNA/EWTN News.- Multiple bishops have responded to a testimony published over the weekend by a former apostolic nuncio to the United States, which called for the resignation of Pope Francis and several cardinals and bishops, who are alleged to have covered-up of sexual abuse allegations against former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.

The Boston Pilot

USCCB President Seek Papal Audience, Answers to Former Nuncio's Questions

 

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said he was "eager for an audience" with Pope Francis to gain his support for the bishops' plan to respond to the clergy sexual abuse crisis.

In an Aug. 27 statement, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston also said that the questions raised by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, former nuncio to the United States, in a letter published by two Catholic media outlets "deserve answers that are conclusive and based on evidence."

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Statement by Bishop da Cunha; Diocese of Fall River

August 21, 2018

Dear Friends in Christ,

Early this week, Pope Francis issued a “Letter to the People of God” in which he acknowledged “the suffering endured by many minors due to sexual abuse, the abuse of power and the abuse of conscience perpetrated by a significant number of clerics and consecrated persons.”

Bishop Rozanski

Statement by Bishop Rozanski; Bishop of the Diocese of Springfield

Friday, August 17 2018

My dear friends,

Archdiocese of Boston Crest

Statement of Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley, OFM Cap Archbishop of Boston

BostonCatholic.org

Monday, August 20, 2018

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)

President of U.S. Bishops’ Conference Response to Pope Francis’s Letter to the People of God

August 20, 2018

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Pope Francis: Letter to the People of God (full text)

Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis

To the People of God

Greg Burke, Vatican spokesman, is seen with Pope Francis aboard the flight from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Rome Dec. 2, 2017. (CNS photo/Paul Haring

Vatican Spokesman to Victims: "The Pope is on your side."

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In the wake of a grand jury report on clergy sexual abuse in six dioceses in Pennsylvania, a Vatican spokesman called the abuses described in the report as being "criminal and morally reprehensible."

"Victims should know that the pope is on their side. Those who have suffered are his priority, and the church wants to listen to them to root out this tragic horror that destroys the lives of the innocent," said Greg Burke, head of the Vatican press office, in a written statement Aug. 16.

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Bishop Confirms Commitment to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People

 

August 16, 2018

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