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RIGHTS OF ACCUSED PRIESTSAvery Dulles, S.J., recommends major changes in the Dallas Charter to move beyond the "zero tolerance" policy so hastily established by the bishops in June 2002. His ideas are presented in the current issue of America Magazine
AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE By Thomas G. Plante
RESPONSE TO THE REPORT ON DIOCESAN AUDITS, ISSUED ON JANUARY 6, 2004 BY THE UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS Thomas Doyle, O.P., J.C.D.
TALK BY DAVID O'BRIEN to VOTF Representative Coucil, Dec. 13, 2003 in Newton, MA
THE LAY VOCATION AND VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL by Thomas P. Rausch. This is a comprehensive and scholarly analysis making the case for structural change in the Church.
TASK FOR THE NEXT CHURCH COUNCIL by Rev. Raymond G. Helmick, S.J. America Magazine, September 29, 2003 Vol. 189 no. 9
ONE YEAR LATER, VOICE OF THE FAITHFUL FACES NEW TESTS by Michael Paulson, April 14, 2003. “I suspect that the church leadership is simply hoping that we will simply fade away and be gone, remaining just a bad memory.”
VOTF CO-FOUNDER RESPONDS TO CRITIC OP-ED INNATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER Many of you may have read the disturbing critique of Voice of the Faithful by David Zizik in the Aug.29 issue of the National Catholic Reporter. Peggy Thorp, Co-founder of VOTF, responds to this critique in the Sept. 19 Issue of NCR.
SR. JOAN CHITTISTER, OSB, COMMENTS ON VOTF National Catholic Reporter column.
WHAT’S WRONG WITH AN AGENDA? by Fr. Richard McBrien. Votf members will find this defense of Catholic action groups informative and useful
Written summary by Jim Muller (founder of VOTF) of his two hour meeting with Cardinal Francis George of Chicago early this spring