JERSEY CITY (NJ)
Jersey Journal
November 11, 2018
By Rev. Alexander Santora
This week, the Catholic bishops of the U.S. will gather in Baltimore for their first semi-annual conference since the summer of sexual abuse allegations, including former Newark Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.
How I wish I could be a fly on the wall of their closed sessions as they will, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, “discuss and vote on a series of concrete measures to respond to the abuse crisis, including … a third-party reporting mechanism, standards of conduct for bishops, and protocols for bishops resigned or removed because of abuse.”
I am too limiting. It should be more than flies allowed into that room if they are truly to engage and enlighten the laity of the church, the major stakeholder in its future.
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