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Into the Storm: Chronicle of a Year in Crisis is an in-depth look at the critical events of a year that opened a new chapter in the crisis of leadership affecting the Catholic Church.This on-the-ground analysis details bishops' ongoing inability to address the rot within their own leadership culture.Written by a journalist with many years experience at the Vatican, Into the Storm takes readers through the events of the tumultuous year 2018, with the kind of insight that only a keen observer of human nature and ecclesiastical politics can offer.Into the Storm will inform readers' understanding of the twisted logic of action that unfolded throughout the year and has brought us to where we are in the life of the Church.

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	14 avril 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781505115239
Langue	English

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INTO THE STORM
INTO THE
STORM
Chronicle of a Year in Crisis
Christopher R. Altieri
TAN Books Gastonia, North Carolina
Into the Storm: Chronicle of a Year in Crisis © 2020 Christopher R. Altieri
All rights reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in critical review, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form whatsoever, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Cover design by Caroline Green
Cover image: Storm Surrounding the Vatican, photo by TT Studios / Shutterstock.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2019957045
ISBN: 978-1-5051-1521-5
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For Joseph and Rachel
CONTENTS
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 From Chile to Rome
“The Pope’s misuse of ‘calumny’ distracts from deeper, more troubling questions”
“Observers remain ‘mystified’ over Pope’s remarks on clerical sex abuse, and call for bishop accountability”
“Will the Pope’s project result in real reform—or turn Rome into a Buenos Aires-on-Tiber?”
2 The Wind Picks Up
“A crisis of leadership? Francis’s defenders call for reform on sex abuse”
“The Bishop Barros crisis: How bad is it?”
“Five years on: a Vatican reporter remembers Benedict XVI’s resignation”
“How US cardinals faced a donor uprising at the Papal Foundation”
“Pope Francis and clericalism”
“Five years after his election, this year is make-or-break for Pope Francis”
“The Vatican’s Viganò Problem”
“The Viganò scandal raises serious questions about reform in the Roman Curia”
“Gaudete et exsultate is beautiful for its simplicity, frustrating for its failures”
3 Clouds Gather and Seas Stir
“The Pope’s apology vindicates Chilean abuse survivors—but why did they have to suffer so long?”
“The Pope has said he was ‘part of the problem’ on abuse. Here’s how he can change that”
“Pope Francis has pledged to take action on abuse. Here comes a big test”
“What did Pope Francis know about Chile, and when did he know it?”
“Pope Francis needs to be transparent in his meetings with the Chilean bishops”
“Abuse crisis: Recent events have revealed a broken culture”
“Pope Francis’s handling of the Viganò scandal doesn’t bode well for Chilean crisis”
“Pope Francis now faces a terrible dilemma over Chile”
4 Into the Storm
“Pope Francis’s letter to Chilean faithful is disappointing and insufficient”
“Cardinal McCarrick and the crisis of episcopal leadership”
“Set aside ideology: US bishops are guilty of a collective failure”
Interview with Cardinal Wuerl
“The bishops’ ‘Apalachin moment’ has arrived”
“The bishops will have to sacrifice power and privilege to resolve the abuse crisis”
“Pope Francis’s letter on abuse was not enough. We need action”
“If Viganò’s ‘Testimony’ is true, Pope Francis has failed his own test”
“The root of the abuse crisis”
5 Winds Howl and Waters Rise
“Is Pope Francis serious about addressing the abuse crisis and its causes?”
“USCCB admits ‘great harm’ caused by ‘some bishops’, outlines steps to address crisis”
“Pope Francis and the current crisis of leadership”
“Dismissing Karadima from the clerical state will do little to help the crisis”
“Analysis: Pope’s ‘thorough study’ of McCarrick files unlikely to satisfy”
“Cardinal Ouellet’s letter forceful, but does not provide substantial refutation”
Cover story: “Shadow over the synod”
“Cardinal Wuerl is gone—or is he?”
“Analysis: Pope’s acceptance of Wuerl resignation puts governance front and center”
“Analysis: Justice by papal fiat points to serious lack of trust within the Church”
“Archbishop Viganò’s third testimony indicates a way through the current morass”
“Opinion: Francis’s remarks about the Great Accuser distract from lack of resolve, leadership”
“The Vatican’s carelessness is on display as new US scandals break”
“February’s meeting of bishops will not succeed without a radical change of culture”
“Buffalo and the silence of the bishops”
“Why has Pope Francis hamstrung the U.S. bishops?”
“Making sense of the USCCB fall assembly and its aftermath”
“How ordinary Catholics can respond to the Church’s crisis”
“The Vatican obfuscates even while preparing for February meeting on abuse”
“Cupich and Scicluna hit their talking points, but are silent on key problems”
“Cardinal Müller seeks the middle ground between Viganò and the Vatican”
6 In the Eye of the Storm
“February meeting at the Vatican needs to address directly the crisis of leadership”
“Pope’s remarks to Curia on abuse more of the same”
“2018 in review: the Church’s annus horribilis”
“2018: The year the Church’s crisis was unmasked”
“The Zanchetta situation is a microcosm of the current crisis”
“What Peter Steinfels got wrong about the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report”
“Report: Vatican already knew about Argentine bishop’s sexual misconduct”
“What the Bishop Zanchetta case tells us about Church leadership”
“Having raised the bar, Pope Francis now seeks to lower expectations”
7 Eye of the Storm
“Pope Francis misses the mark in focusing on clericalism and synodality”
“As a McCarrick verdict looms, the Vatican still faces rough waters”
“Francis has shown confidence in Farrell long before new appointment”
“Questions remain about McCarrick, even as new scandals emerge”
“McCarrick will continue to live at Kansas friary”
“Transparency biggest challenge for Vatican heading into abuse summit”
8 Climax and Deluge
“Abuse summit day one: Pope calls for ‘concrete and effective’ action”
“Abuse summit day two: How to hold bishops to account”
“If you read just one speech from the abuse summit, make it this one”
“What was missing from the Pope’s closing remarks at the abuse summit”
“As the abuse summit closes, what has changed?”
“The Church needs transparency. These two cases show it has a long way to go”
Afterword
FOREWORD
T he task of the Catholic journalist is to inform, explain, encourage, inspire, and elucidate the events of the Church and the world through the lens of an authentically Catholic perspective.
Often, the task of a journalist is to understand and then to explain the context, history, and background that give meaning to unfolding events. To set the scene and lay out the stakes. To know what matters and what doesn’t. To make choices in service to the truth. Journalism, done well, requires wisdom.
Catholic journalism requires something more than that. Because for the Catholic, writing about the Church requires understanding who she really is. Understanding that the Church is more than a sociological phenomenon—that she is, instead, the divinely instituted sacrament of salvation founded by Christ himself.
The Catholic journalist has an odd task. He must, on the one hand, approach his subject using the tools of his profession: seeking objectivity and fairness in his work. He must be willing to recognize the Church’s successes and failures on a human level and the abilities and deficiencies of its leaders. On the other hand, he has to remember that the tools of his profession cannot, by themselves, tell the whole story of the Church—that they cannot unpack the movement of the Holy Spirit, the manifestation of Divine Providence.
The Catholic journalist must be at once reporter and believer, and he must balance those things knowing that his work might impact the communion of the Church itself, the salvation of those who read him.
This task is challenging at any time. In the scandal that enveloped the Church in 2018 and 2019, it has been far more difficult. To do it well—to be the kind of Catholic journalist who might actually serve the cause of truth intelligently and faithfully—requires a foundation of life in Jesus Christ, a foundation of prayer, and study, and formation. To be a Catholic journalist, one must first be a disciple of Jesus Christ, and to understand what’s really happening, one must understand the spiritual dimension of the Church’s life and ministry.
In short, the faithful Catholic journalist must accept and embrace the prophetic dimension of the Christian vocation to holiness, and he must approach his work with the humility that entails. He must be a servant of Jesus Christ by serving the truth, in its entirety, as best as he can grasp it.
Christopher Altieri is a journalist who approaches his work in precisely that way. His analysis and insight are borne of his experience working for and covering the Church, but his practical expertise is complemented by his life as a faithful Catholic: as a husband and father, as a scholar, as a man of prayer.
I do not always agree with Altieri’s conclusions, or even, at times, with his premises. The reader might find the same. But journalism is the first draft of history, not the final version, and this text, and the work it represents, is meant to contribute to a conversation about what has happened in the life of the Church and about how we might best conform ourselves, our structures, and our processes to the Gospel that we proclaim. The strength of this text is that it offers an informed viewpoint that takes into account the reality of the Church as she truly is: an institution both human and divine—the Mystical Body of Christ, comprised of often-miserable sinners. To understand this Catholic moment, we must see both of those things, as Altieri does.
The Church is always need of renewal and reform, and she needs especially for her faithful sons and daughters to call for that reform and to aid in that renewal in the confidence of their wisdom, their expertise, and their vocation. Christopher Altieri has done just that. May his work bear fruit for the kingdom.
J. D. Flynn
PREFACE
W hen I left what was then styled the Secretariat for Communication of the Holy See, after two years with the new dicastery and a decade before that with its predecessor, Vatican Radio, I wrote,