Child sexual abuse by priests was top 2018 story: What about McCarrick and the bishops?

(COMMENTARY) Columnist Terry Mattingly shares his picks for 2018’s top religion stories, parting ways with Religion News Association (RNA)’s list.

Religion, Opinion, North AmericaTerry MattinglyJanuary 2, 2019Theodore McCarrick, Terry Mattingly, China, RNA, Clergy sex abuse, Pope Francis, Vigano, Masterpiece cakeshop, Billy Graham, sexual abuse, Catholic, Christianity

Way out of sight, out of mind? Follow the money in the McCarrick scandals

(COMMENTARY) Theodore McCarrick has become the iconic figure at the heart of the latest round of Catholic clergy sex scandals. Here in America, the key will be whether bishops find ways to hold each other accountable, especially with talk increasing of a federal investigation of cover-ups linked to sexual abuse.

Analysis, Religion, Opinion, North AmericaTerry MattinglyOctober 12, 2018Papal Foundation, Rocco Palmo, Vigano, Pope Francis, Theodore McCarrick, Vatican, Kansas, Terry Mattingly, sexual abuse, Catholic, Clergy, Catholicism, Christianity

UK media responses to Vigano testimony

(COMMENTARY) The flight from reporting to opinion and advocacy journalism is on full display in the first day reports from the British secular press of the Viganò affair. Like their American counterparts, leading mainstream news outlets are portraying the revelations of coverup and abuse in political left/right terms.

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