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Justice and Peace•Local Church

Archdiocese of Washington to lay off employees to address financial crisis stemming (in part) from McCarrick case

What further complicates the picture is the enduring impact of the McCarrick scandal. Though exact figures are elusive, both Gregory and McElroy have acknowledged that donor confidence took a major hit after allegations emerged in 2018 that McCarrick had serially abused seminarians and managed a secret, unaccounted-for fund used for gifts to influential church officials.

Local Church•Persecuted Christians

USA: FBI’s Reach Into Catholic Traditionalism Wider Than Previously Admitted, New Documents Reveal

The implications are stark. Language from the memo compared traditional Catholic beliefs to “Islamist theology” and advised cultivating informants within Latin Mass parishes. Internal emails show that some agents were uneasy. One asked bluntly whether anyone had even requested such a product. Another warned about overreliance on the SPLC’s designations—labels that have sparked controversy for sweeping certain religious or socially conservative groups into categories of hate.