Archbishop Charles Chaput rose to decry any suggestion that the American bishops are at odds with Pope Francis at last week’s meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Continue Reading »
Over the 50-plus years of its existence, no one has figured out how to make the Synod of Bishops really work. Continue Reading »
For all its faults, the Catholic Church in the United States lives the New Evangelization better than any other local Church in the developed world. Continue Reading »
The “neo-colonialism” of dumbed-down expectations compounded by the imposition of First World preoccupations on Third World societies has been evident at Synod-2019. Continue Reading »
Much of the Catholic Church in Germany is in a de facto state of schism. Continue Reading »
Over and over again our bishops' failures of judgment have been ignored as “private” issues. Continue Reading »
The General Assembly of the United States Council of Catholic Bishops must renew the Church in the spirit of Pentecost. Continue Reading »
The first in a series of reports from the Vatican’s meeting on the sexual abuse crisis. Continue Reading »
Standing up for the mob’s victims should be on the Church’s agenda for the justice of all people, especially when its victims are her own children. Continue Reading »
The bishops’ challenge now is to temper their ingrained deference to “Rome” and get on with devising responses to this crisis that are within their authority. Continue Reading »
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