Alexander is among countless Catholics in the U.S. who are raising their voices in prayer and protest to demand change amid new revelations of sex abuse by priests and allegations of widespread cover-ups. One woman in Michigan founded a website to make it easy for anyone to speak up and write to church officials. This new consciousness and new honesty about politics is sort of being transferred to the Catholic Church as well." Thousands of people have also signed a statement that calls on Catholic bishops in the U.S. to consider resigning as a public act of repentance. It took more than three years, but they decided it was necessary to try to change their church from within.

Source: Fox News September 08, 2018 14:48 UTC