Next month will mark the 10-year anniversary of the explosion of the sexual abuse crisis, triggered by a January 2002 article in the Boston Globe on Fr. John Geoghan, accused of abusing more than 130 children over a 30-year career. (Geoghan was killed in prison in August 2003.) Geoghan remains an appalling symbol of the Read more
Will the presence of the Pope in Spain be a moment of spiritual uplift or an unhelpful distraction? That latter possibility was captured by a recent banner unfurled by indignados protestors in advance of the trip: “Fewer crucifixes and more jobs!” A mounting debt crisis has raised fears that Italy and Spain, the third- and Read more