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The Church Still in Crisis

Can we tell the truth?

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

  We have had good reason this year, which has produced the greatest crisis in the history of the U.S. Catholic Church, to remember a man who faced the clerical sexual-abuse crisis over a decade ago, both institutionally in Chicago and personally in enduring a false accusation. The great lesson from Cardinal Joseph Bernardin’s ordeal, in his life and in his dying, is cle (...)


 

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