In a recent interview, Msgr. James R. Bartylla, vicar general of the Diocese of Madison who worked with three of its five bishops, discussed how the diocese has grown and developed over its 75-year history.
Tag: clergy sexual abuse
Vatican official: protection of minors is goal
Clergy sexual abuse has impacted many people in society and the Church, including those working in the Church’s “Supreme Court” at the Vatican.
“This work has changed me,” the priest who heads Vatican Disciplinary Action in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith told Catholic journalists June 19.
“When I read the facts of the cases, I feel repulsed,” said Msgr. John Kennedy. However, he and the 16 others working in his office carry on with the work. “For victims and for their parents, it is far worse,” he said. “We’re doing this because it needs to be done to restore what has been damaged.”
Fatima visionary predicted suffering of Holy Father
To the editor:
In 1917, Jacinta Marto, one of three seers of Fatima, saw in a vision “the Holy Father in a very big house, kneeling by a table, with his head buried in his hands, and he was weeping. Outside the house, there were many people. Some of them were throwing stones, others were cursinghim and using bad language.”
“Poor Holy Father” she said, “we must pray very much for him.”