Cardinal DiNardo praises the new papal norms on preventing clergy sexual abuse for leaving latitude for national bishops’ conferences, such as the USCCB, to specify still more to account for their local circumstances.
Cardinal DiNardo welcomes new papal norms on preventing clergy abuse
Summit emphasizes global nature of abuse crisis, need to put victims first
Speaking to the public, including dozens of abuse survivors, after his midday recitation of the Angelus Feb. 24, the pope promised measures to ensure children would be safe in the church and that the crime of abuse would stop.
DiNardo: Action on McCarrick ‘clear signal’ church will not tolerate abuse
The Vatican’s removal from the priesthood of Theodore McCarrick “is a clear signal that abuse will not be tolerated,” said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Feb. 16.
Head of U.S. bishops says new ‘season’ could come after abuse crisis
The laity may be angry over the most recent revelations of the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis, but bishops, particularly younger ones, share in that anger and “want to move with real force” toward solutions and it could yield a new season for the church, said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Feb. 6.
Details published on Vatican delaying USCCB vote on abuse provisions
AP reported Jan. 1 it had obtained the letter written Nov. 11 by Cardinal Marc Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, to Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, asking that the votes be delayed.
Cardinal says he leaves USCCB assembly more hopeful than when it started
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said he was leaving the bishops’ fall general assembly Nov. 14 more hopeful than when the meeting began two days earlier.
After meeting pope, cardinal says he’s hopeful about addressing crisis
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston struck a determinedly hopeful tone after his long-awaited meeting with Pope Francis to discuss the growing sexual abuse crisis in the United States.
DiNardo: Church must address its leaders’ ‘moral failures of judgment’
Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick “will rightly face” a Vatican canonical process regarding sexual abuse allegations against him, but the U.S. Catholic Church must take steps to respond to church leaders’ “moral failures of judgment,” said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.