WOUNDED BIRD

Several nights ago, I watched the film Spotlight , which was riveting and all around excellent.  The movie earned its well-deserved Academy...

The other evening, I watched the film Calvary written and directed by John Michael McDonagh, starring Brendan Gleeson, as Fr James...

The other night, I watched the movie, Blue Jasmine , which was highly recommended to me by several people. If I ever knew, I'd forgott...

  Pope Benedict XVI's abrupt resignation on Monday heralds the end of a sad and storm-tossed seven-year papacy. The former Joseph ...

From Maureen Dowd at the New York Times : THE archbishop of Dublin was beginning to sniffle. He could not get through a story about “a real...

Did you watch PBS Frontline's "The Silence" on child abuse last night? I did, and it was one of the most difficult shows to...

From the Telegraph : Roger Vangheluwe, 74, the former bishop of Bruges, said the abuse he committed was only "superficial". ...

...who no longer knows me very well. The Catholic Church is bleeding from self-inflicted wounds. The agony that Catholics have felt and suf...

With respect to the alleged continuing cover-up of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church, the hierarchy seems to fear that acceptance of...

From CNN : Twenty-one priests have been placed on administrative leave following a review of suspected child sexual abuse by members of the ...

Last Saturday, I posted a link to a story in the Guardian about an article that would appear today in a German news magazine on the child a...

Please read John Chilton's piece at The Lead titled An occasion for gay bashing and scapegoating : Ordained while gay -- it's the n...

About a week ago, I added Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish to my Google Reader. New posts appear on his blog with amazing speed. I ha...

From NOLA.com by Bruce Nolan: Jason Berry, the New Orleans writer, reported this week that the founder of the Legion of Christ, a global or...

In an essay at the Daily Episcopalian , Ann Fontaine addresses the recent history of child abuse in the Episcopal Church and the policies wh...

From San Antonio.com : A Catholic priest from a rural parish west of San Antonio is accused in a lawsuit filed Thursday of sexually assaulti...

The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith posted an online guide for handling allegations of child abuse.

From the AP : The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citin...

From the New York Times : A senior Vatican priest speaking at a Good Friday service compared the uproar over sexual abuse scandals in the Ca...

From E. J. Dionne at TruthDig.com : How in the name of God can the Roman Catholic Church put the pedophilia scandal behind it? I do not invo...