1. Sex-Abuse Crisis Splits Vatican, Cardinal O’Malley has met resistance in his fight to toughen Pope Francis’ response. By Francis X. Rocca, The Wall Street Journal, February 15, 2019, Pg. A1 Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, chief adviser to Pope Francis on protecting children from…

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1. Report finds ‘no evidence’ of racist talk by students.  By Frances Stead Sellers and Kevin Williams, The Washington Post, February 14, 2019, Pg. A1 A report released Wednesday about an encounter between Kentucky high school students and Native American activists at the Lincoln Memorial…

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1. The Supreme Court Isn’t Anti-Muslim, It erred in denying a death-row inmate’s request for an imam—but not out of bias. By Luke Goodrich, The Wall Street Journal, February 13, 2019, Pg. A15, Opinion Mr. Goodrich is vice president at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Alabama…

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1. 152 abusive priests removed, church says. By Associated Press, The Washington Post, February, Pg. A10 The head of the Mexican bishops’ conference says that 152 Catholic priests have been removed from the ministry over the past nine years for sex abuse offenses against “youths…

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1. Murder Case Stirs Debate On Abortion And New Law. By Ashley Southall, The New York Times, February 11, 2019, Pg. A17 As Democrats in New York last month celebrated Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s signing of a law expanding abortion rights in the state, anti-abortion campaigners predicted…

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1. Abortion’s Dred Scott Moment.  By Timothy Dolan, The Wall Street Journal, February 8, 2019, Pg. A13, Houses of Worship Cardinal Dolan is archbishop of New York.  After the case wound through the Missouri legal system, the Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford…

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1. Pope Pulls Scourge of Sexual Abuse of Nuns Out of Shadows. By Jason Horowitz, The New York Times, February 7, 2019, Pg. A6 The sexual abuse of nuns and religious women by Catholic priests and bishops — and the abortions that have sometimes resulted…

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1. Pope Acknowledges Nuns Were Abused by Priests. By Nicolas Parasie in Dubai and Francis X. Rocca in Rome, The Wall Street Journal, February 6, 2019, Pg. A9 Pope Francis said that “priests and even bishops” had sexually abused nuns, acknowledging the issue for the…

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1. Pope, Candid and Blunt, Breaks Some Taboos in Visit to Persian Gulf. By Jason Horowitz, The New York Times, February 5, 2019, Pg. A4 Pope Francis used the keynote address of his roughly 40-hour stay in the United Arab Emirates to breach delicate taboos…

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1. Tex. dioceses identify accused priests. By Associated Press, The Washington Post, February 1, 2019, Pg. A3 Catholic leaders in Texas on Thursday identified 286 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children, a number that represents one of the largest collections of names to be…

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