- We desperately need to pray for our bishops! Amidst a horrendous history which appears to include turning a blind eye to wickedness, they are meeting in Baltimore, next week....
- "what happens, even today, when a lay Catholic complains that his pastor is violating liturgical norms, or that students at a parochial school are being taught heresy, or that drug and alcohol abuse is rampant on the campus of the local Catholic college? All too often the response is similar to the old, flawed pattern that we saw in reactions to sex-abuse complaints: stout denial, a refusal to investigate or to examine evidence, a charge that the lay persons lodging the complaint are uncharitable. Thus the rights of the laity are suppressed and the offenses continue. The sex-abuse scandal has exposed a systematic problem in the American hierarchy: a failure of leadership that violated the rights of the faithful and allowed the spread of corruption. That scandal—not just the sex-abuse scandal—is what the American bishops must confront as they meet in Baltimore next week" (Phil Lawler, 11/9/18)
On the right side of the home page are links to email Pennsylvania's and New Jersey's delegations in D.C. on federal issues (See 10/21/18 update.), Bucks County's delegation in Harrisburg on Pa state issues (See 10/20/18 update.), and Central NJ's delegation in Trenton on NJ state issues (See 10/21/18 update.).
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