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Father, I attend Mass for reasons familiar to any good Roman Catholic: habit and guilt. Never did a Sunday go by in my youth without an hour slouched on a wooden pew. You see, my father was once one of you. Like many Irish-American boys of his generation, he...
This changed when I came to America. At first I was too busy jamming to the guitar band at my parish to notice; I even joined the tambourine section. Eventually, though, the newly comprehensible sermons began to sink in. I clearly remember one involving a newborn baby left in a...
Catholic abuse victim reacts to record payout
The movement was inspired by a prelate and a single mother. In 2005 Roger Mahony, Los Angeles' Roman Catholic Cardinal, stirred immigrants' rights activists by vowing to disobey a congressional bill that, had it become law, could arguably have criminalized any kindness toward someone who turned out to be undocumented...
In Los Angeles, as in previous cases in the U.S. and elsewhere, the local diocese has essentially shouldered all of the administrative blame - and taken the financial hit - for the priest perpetrators and the bishops who failed to prevent their crimes, with no reference or responsibility assigned to the hierarchy...