Today’s announcement follows a pledge made by Archbishop Chaput in September to spearhead a program administered independently of Church leadership or influence that will provide financial compensation and support for those sexually abused as minors by Archdiocesan clergy.
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Please see the message below from Kenneth A. Gavin, Chief Communications Officer for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Please take note of the hyperlinked text below. It will direct you to previously released materials that provide additional context and important background.
Dear Priests and Deacons,
Periodically, I have shared information with you about items affecting the life of our local Church. These past months have been trying ones with respect to the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report and […]
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After a rather warm and wet summer, I hope you’re ready for fall. This is a time when our children get serious about their education once again after a summer of fun and relaxation. This is also the time when I invite the adults of the parish to consider getting serious about their ongoing education and formation in the faith. There are three excellent programs that can help you get more serious about your faith journey. One of them is called The Rite […]
As we all continue to struggle with the clergy sex abuse scandal and all of its fallout, I encourage you to watch this video from Bishop Robert Barron. He expresses much better than I can both my anger and my conviction that we need to fight for what we believe in – the true Catholic faith. Let’s continue to pray for and – as Bishop Barron recommends – fight for the Church and all of the victims of this tragic moment in our Church’s life.
The commentator of a program I watched on television recently started with a very interesting observation. The program he was introducing recounted the 40,000 years of humanity and how religion has always provided us with a way of believing and belonging. But, he started the program by noting that some people today are trying to do something that no known society has ever successfully done. They are trying to live without religion.
Can we live without religion? “Of course, we can,” many people assert today. In fact, the fastest growing group […]