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There has, as there usually is, much abuse-related news the past week. The Rochester priest arrested on abuse charges pled not guilty. The permanent deacon in Hawaii accused of abuse was released on bail. The Portland Archdiocese has named parishioners as defendants in its bankruptcy case. There were disturbing revelations in Denver this week. Details…

An article, originally from the NYTimes, about Allied awareness of hints of the Holocaust The report is haunted by what-ifs, tantalizing hints, desperate pleas, heroic rescues and by what, in retrospect, can seem like bureaucratic indifference. It also offers a revealing exchange involving Pope Pius XII, who some historians say did not use his influence…

Internet Monk with sad photos of a UM church in Gary. (Demographic inevatiblities…yes. I’m a realist on that score because I’ve lived in the South, where church and parochial school construction can’t keep up with the demand. But it’s always a sad sight, nonetheless) The comments are interesting, highlighting, as they might not so much…

Or not. An interesting, but odd little piece in a Chicago-area paper about an ecumenical service with an underwhelming turnout It  was deja vu all over again for the Forest Park Ministerium at the Ecumenical Healing Service held at St. Bernardine Catholic Church on July 23. Including the choir and the clergy, only 20 people…
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