- Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) January 6, 2019
Twitter keeps talking about the pray-and-repent retreat of the U.S. Catholic bishops this past week, and I keep finding tweets I think are worth sharing with you. In the thread below, I've repeated one I've already shared from Michael J. O'Loughlin, in tandem with ones from Michael Bayer and Legionary of Christ priest Father Matthew to illustrate a point one constantly encounters in discussions of Catholic matters online: where does the truth lie? When one person's set of facts appears flatly to contradict another person's set of facts - and those peddling false information almost never apologize for doing so and retract their, em, well, perhaps it's uncharitable to call them lies, but....
Some of these tweets are not about the bishops' retreat per se, but about issues that impinge on that retreat and have to have been on the bishops' minds (those that deigned to attend the retreat) as they prayed about the abuse situation in the church and their responsibility for it.
"So long as the bishops continue to focus on the failings of others and on fighting culture wars, rather than removing bishops who conceal crimes and transforming the culture of impunity within the Catholic hierarchy, the clergy sexual abuse scandal will not go away." /2
- 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚊𝚖 𝙳. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚍𝚜𝚎𝚢 (@wdlindsy) January 5, 2019
The @USCCB still has not released the list of names of which bishops are attending this week's retreat, mandated by Pope Francis. Word is there may be as many as 200 who elected not to participate. Surely not all of those are for health reasons... https://t.co/AHH6PAnUct
- Michael Bayer (@mbayer1248) January 4, 2019
In the wake of November raid on Houston Archdiocese (Ordinary is USCCB Prez +DiNardo), law enforcement says they "found evidence to suggest the church was withholding information when their investigation began": https://t.co/kZFOWNOXcL
- Rich Raho (@RichRaho) January 5, 2019
