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  • Dreams of shutting down lazy talk about “the people” and “the base”

    Dreams of shutting down lazy talk about “the people” and “the base”

    • Jul 12, 2020

    If I were Pope for a day, I’d commission one of the most reliable polling institutes in the world to conduct regular surveys of the global Catholic population on all the issues of importance in Catholic life.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • On summit anniversary, what we still don’t know about clerical abuse

    On summit anniversary, what we still don’t know about clerical abuse

    • Feb 21, 2020

    What’s striking one year after Pope Francis’s historic clerical sex abuse summit is how much still isn’t understood.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • Summit drives home that clerical sexual abuse is a global problem

    • Feb 25, 2019

    Though Pope Francis’s high stakes anti-abuse summit has not yet yielded any major policy moves, one message was clear throughout the four-day gathering: the problem of child sexual abuse is a global one, and no one can leave thinking it’s not a concern in their own backyard.

    By Elise Harris
  • February abuse summit will have to navigate waters of a global church

    February abuse summit will have to navigate waters of a global church

    • Nov 25, 2018

    A major challenge the planning committee for Pope Francis’s Feb. 21-24 summit on sex abuse will face is taking account of differing instincts inside a global Church.

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • Understanding why the Synod of Bishops blinked on ‘zero tolerance’

    • Oct 30, 2018

    For Americans and Catholics from other places scarred by clerical sexual abuse scandals, it’s almost incomprehensible that a global summit of bishops could pull back from endorsing a policy of “zero tolerance.”

    By John L. Allen Jr.
  • Peru scandal showcases need for oversight of lay movements

    Peru scandal showcases need for oversight of lay movements

    • Aug 6, 2018

    Among other take-aways, the case of Luis Fernando Figari and his Sodalitium Christianae Vitae illustrate the need for lay movements to get the same oversight as dioceses and religious orders.

    By Elise Harris
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