Catholic News Agency:

Cardinal Tobin: Catechism language ‘very unfortunate’ on homosexuality

Tobin endorsed a 2017 book, “Building a Bridge,” by Fr. James Martin, SJ, which has also called for the Church to amend the language with which it discusses homosexuality.

Tobin said of the book that “in too many parts of our church LGBT people have been made to feel unwelcome, excluded, and even shamed. Father Martin’s brave, prophetic, and inspiring new book marks an essential step in inviting church leaders to minister with more compassion, and in reminding LGBT Catholics that they are as much a part of our church as any other Catholic.”

Certainly not all of the thousands of homosexual and bisexual clergy abusers of children were made to feel very welcome in the Catholic Church. And most were never brought to justice. No doubt because the CC has such vile men as Tobin.

North Jersey com:

Wednesday’s publication by New Jersey’s five Catholic dioceses of 188 names of priests and deacons who had been “credibly accused” of molesting children during the last eight decades was part of an attempt for more transparency by American Catholic officials after years of stubborn secrecy that had eroded trust in the church.

Experts say a significant turning point in pushing more Catholic leaders to abandon their traditional code of secrecy on the church’s internal matters was the publication of a scathing 900-page report last August by a Pennsylvania grand jury that documented a decades-long pattern of abuse of 1,000 children by 300 priests.