By framing clerical abuse as a matter of sacrilege, Benedict reinforces the disastrous playbook that has guided the church’s response to the crisis for decades.
Some Catholic moral theologians have recently expressed doubts about the fidelity of scholars in the field to the magisterium. But such doubts are unfounded.
The church is hardly a criminal organization, and prosecuting it under the RICO statute doesn’t make sense. Bankruptcy laws, however, offer a better way
Fifty years ago, the “universality” in Catholic ethics meant absorption into the Roman way of viewing things; a conference in Sarajevo modeled another way
After Ireland, maybe the Church could facilitate difficult moral conversations that engage people caught in today’s bewildering flux of sex and relationships
