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Getting Formation Right
I heard a bishop recently describe what his formation team does at his seminary: “They’re there and they keep an eye on the guys.” And I cringed. Priests assigned...
The Problem of Sexually Active Priests
A “credible and substantiated” allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, new details of his emotional and sexual exploitation of Catholic seminarians, and an allegation...
The Legion’s Scandal of Stalled Reform
Cardinal Velasio de Paolis was named papal delegate to the Legionaries of Christ early in July 2010 to shepherd the congregation through a “process of profound re-evaluation” as mandated...
In Between the Angels and the Apes
Neither Beast nor God: The Dignity of the Human Person BY Gilbert Meilaender Encounter, 180 pages, $21.95 SOME MONTHS AGO, the ethics committee on which I sit at the...
