Analysis

‘Francis effect’ in Argentina’s alternate reality a mix of light and shadows
- Analysis, Crux in Argentina
- Aug 24, 2019
After being away from my home country of Argentina for the past five years, only going back to visit with the family for Christmas and the odd long weekend, I decided to avoid Rome’s scorching summer this year and head back on a reporting mission to take the country’s temperature regarding my fellow Argentinian, Pope Francis.
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Spain grapples with legacy of clerical sexual abuse crisis
- Analysis, Church in Europe, February abuse summit
- Dec 17, 2018
Bishop Jose Maria Gil Tamayo, former secretary and spokesman of the Spanish bishops’ conference, said there’s an attempt to “extend an unfair veil of suspicion over the immense multitude of priests.”
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If bishops’ summit was ‘rigged’ on synodality, one question: So what?
- Analysis, Synod of Bishops on Youth
- Oct 28, 2018
The God’s honest truth is that of the 28 Synods of Bishops held since Pope Paul VI launched the institution in 1965, every one probably has been “rigged” to some extent.
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Silence surrounds abuse crisis on day one of Synod of Bishops
- Analysis, Synod of Bishops on Youth
- Oct 4, 2018
In four official speeches opening an Oct. 3-28 summit of Catholic bishops from around the world, there was no direct reference to the clerical sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Church during summer 2018.
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Accountability for abuse cover-ups may be acid test for pope’s Irish trip
- Analysis, WMF Ireland
- Aug 21, 2018
A new letter to the People of God from Pope Francis on the child sexual abuse scandals in the Church may frustrate as many people as it reassures.
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After Wuerl’s pullout, Pope in Ireland may have to face not just crime but cover-up
- Analysis, Church in the US, WMF Ireland
- Aug 19, 2018
After Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington followed Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston in withdrawing from the World Meeting of Families in Dublin this week, Pope Francis may be pressed in a new way to tackle the question of what to do about bishops who drop the ball on abuse allegations.
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