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Virginia bishop announces Mass of atonement for abuse victims

August 21, 2018

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CWN Editor's Note: Bishop Barry Knestout was appointed bishop of Richmond in 2017.

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  • Posted by: dover beachcomber - Aug. 21, 2018 4:24 PM ET USA

    A good and sincere gesture, but little more. It was the bishops and their top-tier advisors and staff who allowed these largely homosexual predations to go on. It is they who need a Mass of Atonement (or a year of them). Not the laity.

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Today's Memorial of Saints Cornelius (d. 253) and Cyprian (190-258) commemorates two friends in the service of Christ and his Church. Cornelius, a Roman, was the twenty-first Pope during the reign of the Emperor Gallus and Volusian. He had to oppose Novatian, the first anti-pope, who believed that apostates…

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