DETROIT (MI)
ChurchMilitant.com
August 19, 2018
By Stephen Wynne
More than 1,300 sign open letter urging bishops to resign over “conspiracy of silence” on sex abuse
Catholics from the University of Oxford, Cambridge, Notre Dame, Boston College, Fordham and a number of institutions are demanding the “collective resignation” of every bishop in the United States.
On August 15 — the Feast of the Assumption — Catholic theologians, educators, parishioners and lay leaders issued an open letter calling on the bishops to step down after decades of covering up clerical sex abuse.
Since Wednesday, the “Statement of Catholic Theologians, Educators, Parishioners, and Lay Leaders On Clergy Sexual Abuse in the United States” has collected more than 1,300 signatures, with representatives from major universities and institutions as well as hundreds of parishes and ministries across the United States.
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