SOUTH BEND (IN)
South Bend Tribune
By SARA TOTH
Tribune Staff Writer
SOUTH BEND -- Bishop John M. D'Arcy is preparing to attend a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting next week in Chicago, where the American bishops are scheduled to vote on a new program of priestly formation and to renew the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, the document written in response to the clergy sexual abuse scandal.
The issue of homosexual-oriented men in the priesthood and how that may relate to the abuse also may emerge at the meeting being held Wednesday through June 18, according to D'Arcy, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend.
The two documents up for review are "critically" connected, D'Arcy said.
"A massive failure of vocational discernment," D'Arcy said, contributed significantly to the abuse that by 2002 many Catholics had begun referring to as "the crisis in the Church."
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