The mission of the Health and Wellness Committee is to enhance physical, mental, social and spiritual health of the St. Mary faith community in conjunction with the pastor, clergy and Parish Council

Janet Smith, the professor of moral theology says the scandal surrounding Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s predations on children, seminarians and priests, has exposed a toxic problem in the Church that laity must help bishops to root out.

Pope Francis has responded to new reports of clerical sexual abuse and the ecclesial cover-up of abuse. In an impassioned letter addressed to the whole People of God, he calls on the Church to be close to victims in solidarity, and to join in acts of prayer and fasting in penance for such "atrocities".