{"id":214,"date":"2011-03-28T10:57:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/religionandpubliclife\/?p=214"},"modified":"2011-03-28T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:57:43","slug":"the-usccb-reassures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/religionandpubliclife\/2011\/03\/the-usccb-reassures.html","title":{"rendered":"The USCCB Reassures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honor obliges<\/a> that I note that last Friday, the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops finally did acknowledge the eruption of scandal in Philadelphia, in the form of a statement<\/a> from its Administrative Committee, conveyed over the signature of its president, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan. As Grant Gallicho points out<\/a> over at dotCommonweal, the statement does not actually name its raison d’\u00ea<\/em>tre<\/em>, “Philadelphia.” What it does is offer reassurance that the USCCB’s Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, <\/em>adopted in Dallas in 2002, “remains strongly in place.”<\/p>\n

Except, of course, in Philadelphia, where the charter was, as they say, honored in the breach. The Administrative Committee, which speaks for the USCCB when the USCCB is not in session, indicated a collective desire to “strengthen” the Charter “even more” when it conducts a “long planned review” of the thing at the USCCB’s regular meeting in June. One hopes that among the items under consideration will be what to do about a diocese that ignores the provisions of the Charter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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