The Dispatch
Central themes in Oscar Romero’s life emphasized in prayer vigil in Rome
My home away from home when I am in Rome (as now, covering the Synod) is Santa Maria in Portico in Campitelli, a stone’s throw [...]
Analysis: Justice by papal fiat points to serious lack of trust within the Church
Analysis
The Vatican announced on Saturday that Pope Francis has reduced two Chilean bishops to the lay state. One of the defrocked is an 85-year-old man reported now to be suffering senile dementia, Francisco José Cox [...]
Chesterton and the current crisis: “If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst”
Essay
In every Catholic Church, there is a gruesome sight. It is the image of a man being tortured to death. We should turn away from it in horror, but instead we don’t even notice it, [...]
Features
Three Common Myths about Archbishop Oscar Romero
On Sunday, Pope Francis will canonize seven new saints. The best-known of them are Pope Paul VI (1897-1978), who served the Church as supreme pontiff from 1963 to 1978, and Archbishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980), the [...]
Analysis
Analysis: Pope’s acceptance of Wuerl resignation puts governance front and center
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl from the See of Washington, DC, on Friday, though Francis made Wuerl apostolic administrator of the capital archdiocese until the Pope names a successor — [...]
Features
Ohio bishop: “We cannot allow scandals to impede our sharing of the Good News”
Bishop Jeffrey Monforton, 55, is head of the Diocese of Steubenville in southeastern Ohio. He grew up in the Detroit suburbs, the oldest of three sons in a practicing Catholic family. His father was a [...]
Analysis
Viganò & Ouellet: What have we learned about the McCarrick case?
By Ed Condon Vatican City, Oct 10, 2018 / 04:45 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Theodore McCarrick has begun a life of prayer and penance in a monastery in Kansas. In any other circumstances, a cleric beginning [...]
Features
John Henry Newman’s long war on liberalism
Blessed John Henry Newman’s devastating critique of liberal religion remains even more relevant in our own time. […]
Analysis
Analysis: Canadian bishops release lengthy new document on sex abuse
For nearly 30 of my 46 years on this planet, I have been regularly inundated with stories about sex abuse in the Catholic Church in Canada. I wasn’t even Catholic yet when the first major [...]
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Progressivism, the view that modern political tendencies should continually be extended, has deep roots. Its beginnings are closely connected to the rise of modern natural science, which rejects the contemplative ideal of knowledge in favor [...] -
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This is not a time for silence, mediocrity, or fear for the laity or the bishops. The rot and corruption must be outed; the truth […]
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Karen Bonvecchio:
What about credible allegations of abuse against adults - and not only ‘vulnerable’ adults, any adults, including seminarians?
Peter Balsam:
The tip of the iceberg by a guilty party - he's thrown some raw meat to help cover his trail.…
Dr.Cajetan Coelho:
In the developing world, the life of Saint Oscar Romero is a massive inspiration.
