✣Highlights from the week online
‘Call off the World Meeting of Families’ Robert Royal, writing at The Catholic Thing, said the Church ought to cancel the World Meeting of Families in Dublin next week and instead “lead a two-day procession of public penitence” for the decades-long abuse crisis. “The Church is heading into yet another dark time,” he wrote, referring not only to the McCarrick scandal but also to the storm surrounding cardinals in Chile. There will, he predicted, be a “wave of charges and investigations in many places, including the Vatican”. Divisions in the Church will be unhelpful. “We need swift, broad, deep action, and support for the Pope in any good steps he takes,” he wrote.
