Posts Tagged ‘BishopAccountability’

Vos Estis Lux Mundi is not working

Monday, June 13th, 2022
Vos Estis Lux Mundi

Anne Barrett Doyle of the group BishopAccountability.org recently wrote a thoughtful article on how Pope Francis’ major law to hold bishops and religious superiors accountable for abuse they commit or cover up, Vos Estis Lux Mundi (“You Are the Light of the World”), is not working. That article caused me to reflect on the long-standing, Read more

Call to end papal plausible deniability

Monday, November 16th, 2020
plausable deniability

Pope Francis gets a pass mark, just, for his handling of Theodore McCarrick’s recidivist sexual abuse according to Anne Barrett Doyle, the co-director of BishopAccountability.org. While praising the Vatican for releasing the findings of the McCarrick report, survivors say more must be done. “In many ways, this is an impressive report—the Vatican’s first forthright account Read more