The abuse crisis and the ‘tribunalization’ of the Church

PARIS (FRANCE)
LaCroix International

August 27, 2019

By Massimo Faggioli

If Vatican officials thought that they could regain control of the narrative concerning the Catholic Church’s clergy sex abuse crisis by defrocking Theodore McCarrick just days before the recent abuse summit in Rome, they failed to take into account the cases of Cardinals George Pell and Philippe Barbarin.

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