Angelus News | May 17, 2019 | Vol. 4 No. 18
A priest waits while sitting in a confessional box in the Cathedral of Barcelona. A new bill making its way through the California legislature would seek to force priests to break divine law in order to follow civil law. But would requiring priests to break the seal of confession in cases of alleged child sexual abuse really prevent abuse? On page 10, editor Pablo Kay weighs both sides of the debate surrounding SB 360 and looks at how similar legislation has fared in other places. On page 13, contributing editor Mike Aquilina recounts the history of confessional secrecy as a key part of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation in the Catholic faith. And on page 3, Archbishop José H. Gomez writes why the bill is a “mortal threat to the religious freedom of every Catholic.”
A priest waits while sitting in a confessional box in the Cathedral of Barcelona. A new bill making its way through the California legislature would seek to force priests to break divine law in order to follow civil law. But would requiring priests to break the seal of confession in cases of alleged child sexual abuse really prevent abuse? On page 10, editor Pablo Kay weighs both sides of the debate surrounding SB 360 and looks at how similar legislation has fared in other places. On page 13, contributing editor Mike Aquilina recounts the history of confessional secrecy as a key part of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation in the Catholic faith. And on page 3, Archbishop José H. Gomez writes why the bill is a “mortal threat to the religious freedom of every Catholic.”
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Contents<br />
Archbishop Gomez 3<br />
World, Nation and Local <strong>News</strong> 4-6<br />
LA Catholic Events 7<br />
Scott Hahn on Scripture 8<br />
Father Rolheiser 9<br />
A shuttered Catholic school’s STEM revival 14<br />
New parish leadership changes in LA 16<br />
John Allen: Curia reform for dummies <strong>18</strong><br />
Cleveland’s apostle for alcoholics 20<br />
A book to make Catholics grateful for the Church’s bad guys 22<br />
Dr. Grazie Christie: The problem with artificial insemination 24<br />
The comic who couldn’t laugh off cancer and Catholicism 26<br />
Heather King: When ‘feeling good’ is just a performance 28<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
A priest waits while sitting in a confessional box in the Cathedral of Barcelona. A new bill making<br />
its way through the California legislature would seek to force priests to break divine law in order to<br />
follow civil law. But would requiring priests to break the seal of confession in cases of alleged child<br />
sexual abuse really prevent abuse? On page 10, editor Pablo Kay weighs both sides of the debate<br />
surrounding SB 360 and looks at how similar legislation has fared in other places. On page 13,<br />
contributing editor Mike Aquilina recounts the history of confessional secrecy as a key part of the<br />
Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation in the Catholic faith. And on page 3, Archbishop José H.<br />
Gomez writes why the bill is a “mortal threat to the religious freedom of every Catholic.”<br />
JORDI SALAS / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO<br />
IMAGE: Archbishop José H. Gomez greets a mother<br />
and child after the 10 a.m. Sunday Mass at<br />
the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on<br />
Mother’s Day, <strong>May</strong> 12. In what has become a<br />
Mother’s Day tradition at the cathedral, the<br />
archbishop helped give carnation flowers to<br />
each of the mothers present at the liturgy.<br />
VICTOR ALEMÁN
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