The tone-deafness and self-protectiveness of the Rome’s order that the USCCB not develop a new sex-abuse policy, the bafflement and internal divisions of the American bishops, and the liberal-versus-conservative arguments that followed were all characteristic of Catholicism’s crisis under Pope Francis. [1]
The Vatican’s quashing of American initiative
Ross Douthat, NYTimesTuesday, November 20, 2018
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