Voice of the Faithful

This year's VOTF Conference theme is Re-Membering the Church

VOTF Conference takes place virtually via Zoom and will be preceeded by smaller Zoom gatherings to discuss Catholic Church issues.

After nearly two decades, VOTF continues to address Catholic clergy abuse scandal.

Eighteen years after The Boston Globe brought to light widespread clergy abuse in the Archdiocese of Boston, Voice of the Faithful, founded within weeks of the Globe's revelations, continues to address the scandal.

Four U.S. Catholic bishops have reached retirement age and five more will in 2017, and their dioceses await word about who their next bishop will be. The stakes are high. Bishops rule in their dioceses.

VOTF Advisory Board member and Fairfield University theologian elected vice president of largest theological society in america.

Bishop Robert Finn resigned in April as bishop three years after his conviction for covering up the discovery of child pornography on the computer of a priest in his diocese, yet he is scheduled to confer ordinations in his former diocese this month.

In a significant step in the protection of children from clergy sexual abuse, the Vatican has accepted governing statutes from members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

Catholic reform movement is hopeful that the resignation of a bishop convicted of failure to report abuse signals more focus on accountability by Vatican.

Catholic reform movement members gather to discuss issues surrounding the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal, diocesan financial accountability, and lay input into the 2015 bishops' family synod and lay input into Church governance.