WASHINGTON (DC)
Catholic News Service
February 7, 2019
By Rhina Guidos
The laity may be angry over the most recent revelations of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, but bishops, particularly younger ones, share in that anger and “want to move with real force” toward solutions and it could yield a new season for the church, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, who is the archbishop of Galveston-Houston, made the comments on Feb. 6 during a day-long conference to address the problem.
The “Healing the Breach of Trust” conference, the second such meeting at The Catholic University of America in Washington, addressed the need of more involvement by lay women and men – one inspired by the teachings of the Second Vatican Council – in building what the cardinal called in the morning part of the conference a new “season” for the church, and one that may not be accidental.
“Think about what the Spirit might be doing in all of this,” Cardinal DiNardo said. “In saying this, I am in no way trying to deny or dodge the issues of the episcopal responsibility and accountability that this crisis has raised,” but added it’s worth it to ponder St. Augustine’s principle “that God can bring good even out of evil.”
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