Lay Catholics should lead, not leave, their church

by Jennifer Roback Morse

This article was first posted October 11, 2018, at Washington Examiner.

Pope Francis reaches out to hug Cardinal Archbishop emeritus Theodore McCarrick after the Midday Prayer of the Divine with more than 300 U.S. Bishops at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington.
Pope Francis reaches out to hug Cardinal Archbishop emeritus Theodore McCarrick after the Midday Prayer of the Divine with more than 300 U.S.
Bishops at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington.
(Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via AP, Pool, File)

 

The “summer from hell” for the Catholic Church has prompted many people to ask Catholics, “Why are you staying in that awful church?” Both the New York Timesand
the Washington Posthave
run stories with this theme. Many Catholics are privately asking themselves that very question.

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