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Questions remain about McCarrick, even as new scandals emerge

(Rome, February 16th, 2019) The Vatican announced on Saturday that the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore, Edgar McCarrick, has been dismissed from the [...]
News

McCarrick laicized by Pope Francis

Pope Francis and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ordered this week the laicization of Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop emeritus [...]
Essay

The Problem of Pietism

Working recently on some issues in Mariology and Christology, I was struck by how little about Mary and Jesus Christ I’m hearing nowadays from Catholics, [...]
The Dispatch

“Infanticide” arguments are Band-Aids in the abortion fight

Pro-life advocates are galvanized after New York legalized abortion through the day of birth and a similar bill nearly became law in Virginia. Vice President [...]
The Dispatch

In Memoriam: Albert Finney

Albert Finney has died. He was one of the last great mid-century character actors, nominated for five Oscars—he was wonderful almost every time he appeared [...]

Questions remain about McCarrick, even as new scandals emerge

Analysis

Christopher R. Altieri February 16, 2019 1

(Rome, February 16th, 2019) The Vatican announced on Saturday that the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore, Edgar McCarrick, has been dismissed from the clerical state after being found guilty of several different canonical [...]

McCarrick laicized by Pope Francis

News

Catholic News Agency February 16, 2019 2

Pope Francis and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ordered this week the laicization of Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop emeritus of Washington, and a once powerful figure in ecclesiastical, diplomatic, [...]

Essay

The Problem of Pietism

Dr. Leroy Huizenga February 15, 2019 6

Working recently on some issues in Mariology and Christology, I was struck by how little about Mary and Jesus Christ I’m hearing nowadays from Catholics, whether from ranking clergy through the media, or on the [...]

Analysis

Infidelity in Marriage and in the Priesthood

Richard Fitzgibbons, M.D. February 14, 2019 6

Marital infidelity Infidelity in the Sacrament of Marriage is one of the most challenging of all wounds to heal. Infidelity creates severe betrayal pain for spouses and children and, unless properly addressed, can result in [...]

Essay

Newman’s Canonization: A Summons to Truth

Edward Short February 13, 2019 2

Once the news came out today that John Henry Newman (1801-90) would soon be made a saint, after the Vatican announced that the pope had formally approved a second miracle attributed to the great convert’s [...]

Analysis

As a McCarrick verdict looms, the Vatican still faces rough waters

Christopher R. Altieri February 11, 2019 26

The world waits on tenterhooks for the announcement—expected, according to some sources, as early as Tuesday—of a verdict (and presumably a penal sentence) in the case of the disgraced former archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore [...]

Interview

The “useless” doctor of Lourdes

Father Seán Connolly February 11, 2019 7

“There is no other place in the Catholic world with so much suffering, and yet with so much joy, as Lourdes,” says Dr. Alessandro de […]

Essay

The Gift of Filial Adoption

Athanasius Schneider February 8, 2019 6

The Truth of the filial adoption in Christ, which is intrinsically supernatural, constitutes the synthesis of the entire Divine Revelation. Being adopted by God as sons is always a gratuitous gift of grace, the most [...]

Ignatius Press at Forty

James V. Schall, S.J. February 12, 2019 6

In a celebration in St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco this past November, the founders, staff, and several authors recalled the many books and initiatives that have poured forth from that dynamic and innovative source [...]
The Constructed Society and the Leaven of the Gospel

James Kalb February 7, 2019 9
Does the West face “an almost certain doom”?

James V. Schall, S.J. January 17, 2019 32

Fidelity or Idolatry? The conflict behind us, the crisis among us, the choice before us

Carl E. Olson January 7, 2019 30

“Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not God.” — Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2113 “For the grace of God has [...]
The Pope fiddles, the bishops fumble, and the laity fume

Carl E. Olson November 14, 2018 49
Without truth there is no trust, and without trust…

Carl E. Olson July 23, 2018 69

Questions remain about McCarrick, even as new scandals emerge

McCarrick laicized by Pope Francis

The Problem of Pietism

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In Memoriam: Albert Finney

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Questions remain about McCarrick, even as new scandals emerge