Two Nuns Are on a Mission to Reach Catholics Jolted by Abuse Scandals

When the Boston Globe “Spotlight” investigation on clerical abuse rocked the Catholic Church—including its clergy and its lay believers—in 2002, it seemed unlikely that we would ever see triumphalist headlines about a resurgence of American Catholicism. Such a future seemed even less likely in 2019, when Pope Francis defrocked the disgraced American Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, whom a Vatican investigation found to have preyed on seminarians and minors.