MINNESOTA
Canonical Consultation

09/18/2015

Jennifer Haselberger

If you have a ‘google alert’ set to tell you when news is posted about the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, your email inbox has likely been filling up quickly this week. With Pope Francis set to arrive in the United States next Tuesday, it seems as though every major media outlet in the country is running a story about the state of the Catholic Church in America, and no such story is complete without a reference to the place that has become, defacto, the Church’s current ‘ground zero’. In addition to the widely-circulated stories of the AP and Reuters, national and international TV stations have been sending crews to talk to people in Saint Paul and Minneapolis about the state of the church, and specifically about the bankruptcy, resignations, and sexual abuse by clergy.

With every news organization from Al Jazeera…