Category Archives: Jason Berry

Father Dan Ward vs Cardinal O’Brien

Posted on March 3, 2013
Posted in Dan Ward, Jason Berry, Keith O'Brien

Father Dan Ward and Saint John’s Abbey could learn from Cardinal Keith O’Brien.

Who is Father Dan Ward?

Posted on March 1, 2013
Posted in Dan Ward, Jason Berry, Pat Marker, Patrick Wall

(GlobalPost.com) Dan Ward is by any measure a complex man. The lawyer-priest righteously helps nuns on property matters and how to deal with a Vatican investigation.

Examining the Crisis: Scandal vs. crisis; PR vs. raw data

Posted on July 9, 2010
Posted in Jason Berry, Pope Benedict XVI, PR Machine, Richard Sipe, Thomas Doyle

Ron Westrum, professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University, suggests that organizations react in a series of stages to “anomalous reports.” They are: 1) suppression, 2) encapsulation, 3) public relations, 4) local fix, 5) global fix, and 6) investigation of … Continue reading →

Honesty comes before healing

Posted on June 2, 2003
Posted in 1985 Abuse Meeting, Jason Berry, SNAP, Thomas Doyle

THE CHURCH in the United States is experiencing a crisis without precedent in our times,” say the U.S. bishops in the opening sentence of their 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. In this unprecedented crisis, all … Continue reading →

For 3 Who Warned Church, Fears Borne Out

Posted on June 13, 2002
Posted in 1985 Abuse Meeting, Jason Berry, Thomas Doyle

In an auditorium in the Minnesota countryside one June day, the bishops of the American Roman Catholic Church were gathered in closed conclave. It was a heady time. They had used their moral standing to plunge into the nation’s political … Continue reading →

What they knew in 1985

Posted on May 17, 2002
Posted in 1985 Abuse Meeting, Harry Flynn, Jason Berry, St. Luke's, Thomas Doyle

As attorneys across the nation press countless clergy sex abuse cases against the church, two critical questions they most often ask are: “What did the bishop know?” and “When did he know it?” At stake is episcopal culpability. Also at … Continue reading →

The Sins of the Fathers

Posted on February 21, 1993
Posted in Brennan Maiers, Jason Berry, Jeff Anderson, Richard Sipe

Fittingly, the theme of sin and contrition runs through both accounts of the molestation. First, listen to the victim. Later will come the response of the priest she appealed to for help.