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Letter to the Editor | Friday, October 5, 2018
“Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who have been pasturing themselves! Should not shepherds, rather, pasture sheep?” These words from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel are painfully true today. Starting this past summer, the Catholic Church in the United States has found herself once again amidst great scandal with the news of Archbishop Theodore
Sara Schlecht | Friday, September 28, 2018
The Catholic Church can’t manage to stay out of the news. A recent wave of sexual abuse accusations against priests has Catholics and non-Catholics alike criticizing the Church’s handling of these widespread problems. These things were at the forefront of my mind as I traveled with 33 other Saint Mary’s students and several professors to
Natalie Weber and Mary Steurer | Wednesday, September 12, 2018
In the aftermath of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report, members of the Notre Dame community gathered Tuesday in a discussion hosted by Campus Ministry to grapple with the sexual abuse crisis facing the Catholic Church. “There’s going to be no resolution at the end of this,” Fr. Pete McCormick, director of Campus Ministry, said. “But
Jackie O'Brien | Wednesday, September 12, 2018
It has happened again. Yet another clerical sex abuse case in the Catholic church has appeared on the front pages of our national and international newspapers. For over seventy years, over a thousand survivors experienced sexual abuse at the hands of over three hundred priests in Pennsylvania. And it seems again that the Church did
Campus Ministry | Monday, September 10, 2018
I came of age in a church that has consistently been marred with scandal. I was 14 when the stories of systematic child abuse and the subsequent cover-ups in Boston made headlines in 2002. My parish pastor was accused of sexually assaulting a minor in the year that followed. In 2012, the bishop who confirmed
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, September 4, 2018
“The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church.” I often heard this adage from my high school theology teacher. Among other phrases, she utilized it to support the idea that the Church is stronger as a result of being persecuted. She never acknowledged that certain segments of the Church, or she herself, might
Letter to the Editor | Monday, September 3, 2018
This past month, the Vatican celebrated the third anniversary of the encyclical, “Laudato si’,” a letter written by Pope Francis on the care of the Earth, our common home. An International Conference was organized by the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and aspired to communicate a sense of deep urgency and profound concern for
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, August 21, 2018
On Aug. 14, a grand jury report in Pennsylvania revealed that hundreds of Catholic priests had abused 1,000 children in that state. The report relied on thousands of pages of secret church documents with information about the cases. Since the release of the report, bishops in Pennsylvania have apologized and spoken of a commitment to
Erin Grimes | Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Saint Mary’s Campus Ministry and the Center for Spirituality hosted a dinner and conversation Tuesday evening titled “The Catholic Church Needs Women; Do Women Need the Catholic Church?” featuring Sr. Sharlet Ann Wagner, CSC, the President-elect of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The event consisted of small group discussions between three to four students, an
Andrew Cameron | Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Catholic writer Dan Mattson spoke Monday on his struggle to reconcile his sexual identity with his faith. The talk was hosted by Students for Child-Oriented Policy and the “Irish Rover.” The first 30 attendees to the event received free copies of Mattson’s book, “Why I Don’t Call Myself Gay: How I Reclaimed My Sexual Reality