Sunday, January 8, 2012

Cardinal O'Malley on the sex abuse crisis: 'It's not behind us'

by John L Allen Jr. on Jan. 06, 2012 All Things Catholic

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Q&A’s with Boston’s archbishop and architect of the post-Cardinal Law/post-bankruptcy archdiocese.

For the people who are connected to their parish, in some ways I think they've become stronger in their faith. The seminary situation may be another example. At the beginning, priests were encouraging me to close the seminary. Today we're scrambling because we don't have enough room, and the young men who are coming do so with a sense that they want to do something to help the church. They know the church needs them.

What are the numbers?
For the archdiocese, we have over 70, and St. John's Seminary in total has over 100. When I got here, the archdiocese had maybe 15 or 20. ... I think the crisis has caused a lot of Catholics to look into their hearts to see what they could do to help the church, to make themselves more available.

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