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While the policies and procedures that  have been implemented by the Church since 2002 to address the sexual abuse of minors by the clergy have resulted in a significant decrease of such abuse, the revelations of horrific incidents of abuse in the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report, along with the abuse perpetrated by Archbishop McCarrick point to a systemic problem within the Church that can no longer be ignored or tolerated by the episcopacy in the United States.

Watch as youth and young adults, including those from the Diocese of Arlington, carry the World Youth Day cross throughout Washington, D.C., and share their excitement as they prepare to attend World Youth Day in Panama.

Hundreds of people gathered in Washington this weekend to be a part of the journey of the World Youth Day Cross as it travels to Panama for the 33rd World Youth Day celebration in January 2019. 

Pope Francis said Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's long document calling on him to resign is written in a way that people should be able to draw their own conclusions.