Recommended reading: The New York Times' "Room for Debate: A running commentary on the news" blog has a must read series of articles, Changing the Vatican’s Response to Abuse, about the clergy sex abuse crisis. NCR has been dogging this story since the mid-1980s. With attention focused squarely on the highest levels of church structures, I think it is fair to say that this crisis has entered a new phase.
Regular NCR readers will recognize all the people the Times asked to write on the topic. Our senior correspondent, John L. Allen Jr., is there, as is our Young Voices columnist Nicole Sotelo. Nicholas Cafardi has written commentary for us before, and David Gibson has written for us too. I am not sure if David Clohessy has ever actually written for us -- I'll have to check the archives -- but he has been a news source innumerable times.
