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Robert Weisberg's avatar

Please pray for a friend of a friend, Jo, who should be induced into labor sometime today in an attempt to address the declining birth rate in America. Ellie is her daughter's name.

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Josh D's avatar

Thanks for your Stika article. I’m sure you guys know this but that is EXTREMELY worthwhile reporting. It is a reality that the internal accountability mechanisms of the Church do not perform their intended tasks, at least at this point, and we rely on “exterior” checks like your reporting. So thank you.

My reading of the McCarrick affair suggests that it was primarily reporting outside the hierarchical chain of command (for instance, by Richard Sipe and Matt Abbott), or threats to go public with damaging information (for instance, by Gregory Littleton) that propelled any kind of forward movement inside the Church bureaucracy toward actually disciplining McC.

With that in mind, your story makes me think one of the underrated elements of this Vos Estis process is that it generates discrete "things" that can be leaked and reported on. True, the investigations VELM triggers seem so far to be highly intransparent and otherwise insufficient, but "A Vos Estis investigation has been triggered" is a reportable story in a way that "There are all these rumors but no one will go on record" is not.

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