A Solution to a Kafkaesque Clerical Conundrum - First Things

A Solution to a Kafkaesque Clerical Conundrum - First Things

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he was arrested.” When Franz Kafka wrote the opening line of his famous story The Trial a century ago, the clerical sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church was a long way off. Yet Josef K.’s tragic fate parallels the experience of many Catholic priests in twenty-first-century America. Hyperbole? Think again. An elderly priest, still hard at work as past…

IMPORTANT: At First Things by canonist and civil lawyer Michael Mazza – “A Solution to a Kafkaesque Clerical Conundrum” | Fr. Z's Blog

At First Things find a piece by Michael J Mazza who is one of the best canon lawyers around and who is also a civil lawyer. He has done yeoman’s work in defense of priests and their good reputations. Someone … Read More →