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is here, focusing on a situation in Costa Rica and Honduras Bishop San Casimiro acknowledged that in the mid-1990s, he freed Father Vásquez to work abroad after the priest admitted to him that he had abused a 10-year-old altar boy. “When I found out he had this problem,” the bishop said, “I confronted him, and…

Issue rebuke. Leave the rest up to the ordinaries Despite the “polarizing” nature of election-year politics, the bishops wrote, “Respect for the holy eucharist, in particular, demands that it be received worthily and that it be seen as the source for our common mission in the world.” The bishops’ statement also calls for withholding signs…

A A NYTimes article on prenatal testing and the burden of the consequent choices. But some couples who terminate pregnancies for fetal health conditions say no one has a right to judge them. A child psychologist in Atlanta who terminated a Down syndrome fetus earlier this year said she was outraged by people who told…

I think the mystery that would puzzle most readers of stories like those the Dallas News is publishing is…why? What is the root of the reluctance (to put it mildly) to remove even even convicted abusers from some sort of active priestly ministry or even in the priesthood at all? No one in the hierarchy…
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