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Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a professor of psychology and president of the Center for Child Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, is pictured in a 2015 photo. Father Zollner has been on the frontlines of advocating for survivors of clerical sexual abuse and developing detailed programs to prevent abuse. He said the crisis unfolding again in the United States is a summons to a new way of envisioning the church and taking responsibility for it. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Abuse expert hopes summit will include bishops’ accountability

Cindy Wooden
December 28, 2018
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A member of the committee organizing Pope Francis’ February summit on the sexual abuse crisis said the meeting should include discussing ways to hold bishops accountable for handling cases correctly.

In this 2011 file photo, Sister Wendy Beckett poses with an unidentified admirer during a book signing at St. Pauls Bookshop in London. (CNS photo/Jo-Anne Rowney, courtesy of St. Pauls Bookshop)

Sister Wendy Beckett, art critic and British TV star, dies at age 88

Carol Zimmermann
December 28, 2018
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WASHINGTON — Sister Wendy Beckett, who gained fame in the 1990s for television shows and books explaining art, died Dec. 26 in Norfolk, England, at the age of 88. She has been widely described as both an unlikely art critic and television star, but that may have been what made her all the more likeable. […]

The likeness of a priest is seen in this illustration. A priest who once served in the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to prison Dec. 21 for sexually molesting a boy in the 1990s. Also in late December, the Archdiocese of New York suspended an elderly priest who had been celebrating Mass in two states despite settlements paid for allegations of sexual abuse of teenage boys.(CNS illustration/Tyler Orsburn)

Pennsylvania priest sent to prison after guilty plea in abuse case

Dennis Sadowski
December 28, 2018
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A priest who once served in the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to prison for sexually molesting a boy in the 1990s.

Father Collin Poston and his dog, Otto, greet a parishioner after Mass. (Courtesy Father Collin Poston)

Longing for a savior: the world, humanity and Otto

Father Collin Poston
December 27, 2018
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As I was preparing my Christmas homily for my parishes of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Thurmont and St. Anthony Shrine in Emmitsburg, I was praying and reflecting on what to preach about, and a recent memory came to mind. As many of you who have read this blog before know very well (as […]

A young boy heading to the United States with other migrants from Central America is given water by Guatemalan police Dec. 19. On Dec. 24, an 8-year-old Guatemalan child detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection died at a hospital in New Mexico, the agency reported, the second migrant child to die in government custody in December. (CNS photo/Esteban Biba, Reuters)

Catholic groups denounce child’s death near U.S. border on Christmas Eve

Rhina Guidos
December 26, 2018
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Immigration officials announced new health checks for immigrant children under detention after a second child, an 8-year-old boy, died Christmas Eve while under the agency’s care.

Pope Francis greets the crowd after delivering his Christmas blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the city and the world) from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Dec. 25. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

In Christmas message, pope prays for peace, brotherhood

Cindy Wooden
December 26, 2018
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Delivering his formal Christmas message and blessing, Pope Francis prayed for a world where all people would recognize that they are brothers and sisters and would work for justice and for peace.

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