Five takeaways from the McCarrick Report (The New York Times) On Tuesday the Vatican released a massive report investigating how Theodore E. McCarrick, a disgraced former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, rose to the heights of the Catholic Church, despite leaders receiving reports that he had sexually abused minors and adult seminarians over the course of decades. Here are five takeaways from the report…
McCarrick Report: When one mother had to speak up (CNA) In the early 1970s, a New York family met a priest. He came to dinner, he came to birthday parties. The family was deeply religious, the priest’s attention meant a lot. He called the boys his nephews. The priest was Theodore McCarrick. And by the 1980s, the mother in that family knew she needed to tell the Church that McCarrick, then Bishop of Metuchen, was not who he seemed to be…
Joe Biden’s extended Jewish family (The New York Post) As Joe Biden preps to become the nation’s second Catholic president, the president-elect also has deep Jewish roots within his extended family. Biden, 77, who regularly attends church near his home in Wilmington, Delaware, has been vocal about his Catholic upbringing, but all of his children grew up to marry Jewish spouses, The Jewish Chronicle reports…
Indian Christians mark Dalit Liberation Sunday (Vatican News) Christians in India observed Dalit Liberation Sunday in solidarity and closeness with Christians of Dalit origin or former untouchables, who continue to face discrimination and injustice. Since 2007, the Office for Scheduled Castes-Backward Classes of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) and the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI), which comprises Protestant and Orthodox Churches, come together to mark the day on the second Sunday of November…
Nuns in Poland protest media depiction as “servants” (CathNews) “We treat these words as discrimination against women and an insult to nuns, who live according to the charisma of their order in line with their convictions,” said the nuns from the St Elizabeth order, which runs schools, orphanages and special needs facilities in Poland, with branches in Africa, Latin America, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The nuns, all aged over 60, were reacting to an article in Gazeta Wyborcza which said Poland’s Catholic bishops lived “in palaces where nuns work as servants, with food under the nose, laundry done and bills paid”…
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