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Mark Chopko’s 2010 letter on how Church has handled the sex abuse crisis
In 1992 Mark Chopko, then the General Counsel for the United States Catholic Conference, sent a letter to Catholic Digest’s sister publication Today’s Parish about how the Church was responding to the clergy sexual abuse crisis…
Should the Charter change?
NFPC recommended modifications
They’re playing our song
I’ve got a song stuck in my head. It starts playing when I get up in the morning, and it bounces around up there all day. I find myself humming it as I walk along the street or drive home. Sometimes I push it to the back with a catchy…
Abuse Crisis
What you need to know, what we can do, and how to cope. A Special Report from Catholic Digest: The following is a PDF of the articles printed in the July/August 2010 issue of Catholic Digest Click here to read the report The…
The Truth about Vaccines: A response to our critics
Do you remember Stephen of Bourbon? I wrote about him in this e-newsletter about a year ago. He was a 13th-century Dominican heresy hunter who traveled around France battling unorthodox religious ideas and superstitions. One day, near the…
Good Egg: Ellie Fields
Immaculate Conception Parish, Washington, Pennsylvania
Clergy sexual abuse and the pope
Some 35 years ago, on a Sunday evening, my friend Rob called to tell me about his wild weekend. After his last class on Friday at the seminary college he attended, he’d driven to a beach community in a neighboring state, spent most of…
My unexpected Christmas… and Lent
It’s Christmas Eve during the Vigil Mass in my parish. There’s a good crowd of parishioners (including loads of kids), and my wife’s children’s choir is singing. They sound terrific. The readings are being…