The Catholic Church does not need the Priest
Against the background of sexual scandal rocking the Catholic Church, one of her parishioners James Carrol has called on Pope Francis to abolish the institution of priesthood in the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has been on a long quest over sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests.
I. “The Murder of a Soul”
To feel relief at my mother’s being dead was once unthinkable, but then the news came from Ireland. It would have crushed her. An immigrant’s daughter, my mother lived with an eye cast back to the old country, the land against which she measured every virtue. Ireland was heaven to her, and the Catholic Church was heaven’s choir. Then came the Ryan Report.
Not long before The Boston Globe began publishing its series on predator priests, in 2002—the “Spotlight”...
