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Morning Catholic must-reads: 27/08/18

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

Former nuncio: Pope Francis knew about McCarrick but withdrew sanctions

Archbishop Viganò said the Pope was fully aware of allegations against McCarrick but refused to act

Staff Reporter

Pope Francis meets with abuse survivors in Ireland

The Pope spoke to eight Irish survivors of clerical abuse for an hour and a half

Catholic News Agency

PICTURES: Pope Francis arrives in Ireland

Pope Francis has arrived at Dublin airport at the start of his visit to the World Meeting of Families

Staff Reporter

Who might follow Cardinal Wuerl in DC?

The next Archbishop of Washington faces a very difficult task

JD Flynn/CNA

Write 'zero-tolerance' into canon law says abuse survivor

Marie Collins said canon law had more often been used to protect the abuser than to punish him

Christine Rousselle & CNA

Seton Hall announces 'independent review' of seminary accusations

The university will investigate whether any of Archbishop McCarrick's alleged abuses occurred at its seminaries

Ed Condon/CNA

Illinois launches investigation into Catholic dioceses after Pennsylvania report

The investigation will include the Archdiocese of Chicago, which is headed by Cardinal Blase Cupich

David V Barrett

Texas priest missing amid abuse allegations

Fr Edmundo Paredes is accused of assaulting three teenage boys

Catholic News Agency

Morning Catholic must-reads: 24/08/18

A daily guide to what's happening in the Catholic Church

Luke Coppen

The Pope’s next steps

this is either the best or the worst time for a papal visit to ireland. it’s easy to understand why it might be the worst. consider these ne...

The Catholic Herald

The big story of the past seven days

✣ pope deplores abuse in letter to world’s catholics what happened? pope francis has called on all catholics to engage in penitential praye...

Staff writers

United States: Cardinal error

the archbishop of washington’s public relations strategy backfires six dioceses, 300 priests and 1,000 victims. those numbers were splashed ...

Michael Warren Davis

The perils of hasty secularisation

pope francis could hardly be arriving at a more dramatic moment. in the aftermath of the abortion referendum, ireland seems to be wholly set...

Michael Duggan

Fr Raymond J de Souza: From bureaucrats to penitents

in this summer of shame, how should bishops speak about scandals of sexual predation in the clergy? there have been some remarkable failures...

Fr Raymond de Souza

The holy rebels

above (top to bottom): thomas merton, dorothy day and daniel berrigan in 2017 jim forest published at play in the lions’ den , a biography o...

Danny Sullivan

Arts essay: Are almanacs about to make a comeback?

food and garden writer lia leendertz is about to release her almanac for 2019. an amazon bestseller, it claims to “revive the tradition of t...

Bonnie Lander Johnson

After grand jury report, new allegations raised in Pennsylvania

The new allegations go back as far as the 1940s

JD Flynn/CNA

Cardinal Nichols 'utterly ashamed' over Church abuse scandal

The cardinal said that 'as a Father in this House' he bore 'the direct responsibility' to protect the household from harm

Alex Defert

Cardinal Wuerl's name vandalized on Catholic high school sign

The cardinal faces continuing criticism over his handling of the abuse crisis

Catholic News Agency

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