“Judgment prevailed and set the scene for harshness, not homeliness,” Archbishop Francis Duffy of Tuam preached at his installation homily. “Human dignity was not there for the living or the dead or the bereaved. . . . To move forward we must listen to all who have been hurt by their experience of Church.”

POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and