September 11, 2018
The last few months have been very difficult in the life of the Church. With the confirmed sexual abuse of minors and seminarians by then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and his removal from the College of Cardinals, as well as the publication of a detailed report of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy in six dioceses of the State of Pennsylvania, a genuine state of moral and spiritual crisis in the Catholic Church in the United States has hit us all with great force.