US Church Suffering, but Canadians in Control of Sex Abuse Crisis

LaCroix International
February 20, 2019

https://international.la-croix.com/news/us-church-suffering-but-canadians-in-control-of-sex-abuse-crisis/9501


Photos of Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse posted during a press conference in Orange, NJ, United States of America, on Dec. 6, 2018. (Photo by Jae C. Hong/AP) The North American Church is a scene of striking contrasts. Pope Francis issued a warning to U.S. bishops, who have been grappling with an endless list of revelations for months while their Canadian counterparts were congratulated by Father Federico Lombardi SJ, coordinator of the forthcoming Rome summit on sexual abuse, for the measures they adopted in 2018.The powerful US Catholic Church has turned into a sad showcase for the global sexual abuse scourge.The laicization of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, an unprecedented move at this level of the Church, is merely the most recent illustration of this.Seventeen years after revelations were first published...