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Pope Francis greets Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl during a Mass in 2015 outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington.

Editorial: A confusing message

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Clearly, Cardinal Donald Wuerl was right to resign as Washington archbishop, but his fall has sent mixed signals about the Vatican’s resolve to get tough on clerical sex abuse.

The more than 80 Catholic bishops and eparchs in Canada pledged at their recent annual gathering in Cornwall, Ont. to implement the new CCCB guidelines on preventing sexual abuse.

Editorial: Bishops get it right

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Good riddance to confidentiality clauses. If one outcome captures the spirit of the Canadian bishops’ new document on sex abuse, that might be it. No more confidentially clauses.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, is pictured at his residence at the Vatican in this Oct. 20, 2011, file photo. The former nuncio has accused church officials, including Pope Francis, of failing to act on accusations of abuse by Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick.

Editorial: The truth awaits

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We have grown weary of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. Weary of his accusations. Weary of his recklessness. Weary of his insolence. Weary of his betrayals. Weary of his cunning.

Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City assists Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, as they arrive for the closing Mass of the jubilee Year of Mercy celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican 2016. Also pictured are Cardinal George Pell, prefect of the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy; Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston; and Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles.

Editorial: A first good step

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Miami Bishop Thomas Wenski was achingly correct when he stated in a recent homily that the storm pounding the Church is not a crisis of faith, but one of leadership.

Pope Francis speaks during a meeting with recently appointed bishops from around the world at the Vatican Sept. 13. The pope spoke about updating the processes of selection, accompaniment and evaluation of bishops.

Editorial: Confront the past

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was long, emotional and painful, but necessary as an act of a nation’s contrition after facilitating decades of abuse at residential schools. 

Editorial: Our duty to water

Editorial: Our duty to water

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Canadians take water for granted. We have more ocean shoreline than any nation on Earth and our freshwater lakes and rivers cover almost 12 per cent of Canada’s landmass.

Pope Francis attends his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Sept. 5.

Editorial: We need answers

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“When a bit of time has passed,” said Pope Francis, perhaps he would answer serious allegations that he permitted a cardinal cited for sexual abuse to return to public ministry.

Pope Francis speaks to families during the Festival of Families in Croke Park stadium in Dublin Aug. 25.

Editorial: It’s time for action

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“We showed no care for the little ones,” wrote Pope Francis. “We abandoned them.”

Editorial: Killing is never right

Editorial: Killing is never right

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By categorically rejecting the death penalty, the Church has finally removed an unsettling contradiction to its teaching that all human life is sacred from conception to natural death. 

Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick attends a Mass in Rome April 13, 2018. The retired archbishop of Washington faces a canonical trial on allegations he sexually abused a minor and seminarians some years ago. Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals July 28.

Editorial: Another betrayal

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The soul-crushing case of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is yet another example of one of God’s shepherds doing the devil’s work in a Church failing still to wash away what Pope Benedict XVI called the filth of clerical sexual abuse.

Editorial: Listen to parents on sex ed

Editorial: Listen to parents on sex ed

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It’s probably a safe bet that Ontario’s new premier has never read Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae, which reaffirmed the Church’s teaching on marriage, parenthood, procreation and contraception. 

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