Demonstrators lined up outside a Catholic bishops' retreat in suburban Mundelein to protest church officials’ handling of sexual abuse allegations. https://t.co/SlIFES370u pic.twitter.com/Qvzz4sRlw8— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) January 6, 2019
Twitter keeps talking about the pray-and-repent retreat of the U.S. Catholic bishops this past week, and I keep finding tweets I think are worth sharing with you. In the thread below, I've repeated one I've already shared from Michael J. O'Loughlin, in tandem with ones from Michael Bayer and Legionary of Christ priest Father Matthew to illustrate a point one constantly encounters in discussions of Catholic matters online: where does the truth lie? When one person's set of facts appears flatly to contradict another person's set of facts — and those peddling false information almost never apologize for doing so and retract their, em, well, perhaps it's uncharitable to call them lies, but….
Some of these tweets are not about the bishops' retreat per se, but about issues that impinge on that retreat and have to have been on the bishops' minds (those that deigned to attend the retreat) as they prayed about the abuse situation in the church and their responsibility for it.
Clergy Child Sex Abuse and Catholic Bishops: They Still Don’t Get It https://t.co/XvCOjMHd5d via— Peter Fox 🦊🇦🇺 (@Peter_Fox59) January 1, 2019
"So long as the bishops continue to focus on the failings of others and on fighting culture wars, rather than removing bishops who conceal crimes and transforming the culture of impunity within the Catholic hierarchy, the clergy sexual abuse scandal will not go away." /2— 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 5, 2019
A spokesperson from the US bishops conference tells me there are "about 250" bishops at the retreat, where bishops are reflecting on the sex abuse crisis. According to the USCCB website, there are 456 active and retired bishops in the US, part of 196 dioceses. https://t.co/UDLBwIroio— Michael J. O'Loughlin (@MikeOLoughlin) January 3, 2019
The @USCCB still has not released the list of names of which bishops are attending this week's retreat, mandated by Pope Francis. Word is there may be as many as 200 who elected not to participate. Surely not all of those are for health reasons...https://t.co/AHH6PAnUct— Michael Bayer (@mbayer1248) January 4, 2019
This is good news:almost every bishop showed up for the retreat. https://t.co/wRyAbcWQWh— Fr. Matthew, LC 🤴🤴🤴➡️👶 (@FrMatthewLC) January 4, 2019
In the wake of November raid on Houston Archdiocese (Ordinary is USCCB Prez +DiNardo), law enforcement says they “found evidence to suggest the church was withholding information when their investigation began”: https://t.co/kZFOWNOXcL— Rich Raho (@RichRaho) January 5, 2019
Argentine bishop at Holy See investigated for sexual abuse https://t.co/ixDLtqHzd0— Catholic Herald (@CatholicHerald) January 4, 2019
The Vatican plans to try Archbishop Theodore McCarrick as early as this coming week https://t.co/BaVVUoVsLi— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 6, 2019
Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, faces the first trial of a cardinal for covering up abuse by priests https://t.co/EKjQPFYg0I— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 5, 2019
"Vatican has long been aware of nuns sexually abused by priests and bishops […] but it has done very little to stop it" https://t.co/huh50UmHjw— The Wire (@thewire_in) January 6, 2019
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