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Bishops’ meeting in Baltimore left much work to be done

The November General Assembly of Bishops in Baltimore was a difficult but perhaps unavoidable experience for us to move forward as a Church. I was very disappointed [...]
The Dispatch

Tribulation, apocalypse, distress—and hope

Readings: • Deut 12:1-3 • Psa 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11 • Heb 10:11-14, 18 • Mk 13:24-32 Tribulation, affliction, and distress. These aren’t attractive topics, [...]
The Dispatch

Cupich and Wuerl collaborated on alternative sex abuse proposal

Washington D.C., Nov 16, 2018 / 06:56 pm (CNA).- Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago and Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington collaborated extensively on a recently [...]
Books

Weaving the liturgical year into the fabric of family life

Kendra Tierney is a mother of nine who writes about parenting, family life, and living the Church’s liturgical year at her award-winning blog Catholic All [...]
The Dispatch

In thanksgiving for the beatification of Mother Clelia Merloni

Over the course of many years as a seminarian and priest, I have been blessed to attend beatifications of women who have made a singular [...]

Bishops’ meeting in Baltimore left much work to be done

Features

Bishop W. Shawn McKnight November 17, 2018 6

The November General Assembly of Bishops in Baltimore was a difficult but perhaps unavoidable experience for us to move forward as a Church. I was very disappointed to learn that the Holy See found it necessary to [...]

Weaving the liturgical year into the fabric of family life

Books

Catherine Harmon November 16, 2018 6

Kendra Tierney is a mother of nine who writes about parenting, family life, and living the Church’s liturgical year at her award-winning blog Catholic All Year. Her new book, The Catholic All Year Compendium: Liturgical Living [...]

Books

The Smoke of Satan provides clear, concise analysis of the episcopal crisis

Gregory J. Sullivan November 15, 2018 18

“Through some fissure the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” — Pope St. Paul VI in 1972 The sex-abuse crisis, now in its episcopal phase, is certainly the worst crisis the Church [...]

Editorial

The Pope fiddles, the bishops fumble, and the laity fume

Carl E. Olson November 14, 2018 41

I haven’t written an editorial since late July, in part because of the heavy and unceasing flood of news—most of it bad and some of it terrible—within the Church. In my last editorial, posted on [...]

Features

US bishops punt resolution encouraging Holy See to release McCarrick documents

Catholic News Agency November 14, 2018 5

Baltimore, Md., Nov 14, 2018 / 03:16 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- On the last day of their fall meeting, the U.S. bishops’ conference voted down a resolution that would have “encouraged” the Holy See to release [...]

Features

Intense debate over handling of abuse scandal ensues at USCCB meeting

Catholic News Agency November 13, 2018 50

Baltimore, Md., Nov 13, 2018 / 07:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- More than 20 bishops and cardinals offered passionate interventions during an open floor discussion on the sex abuse crisis at the U.S. bishops’ meeting in [...]

Analysis

Why has Pope Francis hamstrung the U.S. bishops?

Christopher R. Altieri November 12, 2018 43

Pope Francis has ordered the Catholic Bishops of the United States to refrain from voting on a code of conduct and a lay-led oversight body to investigate bishops accused of misconduct. The President of the [...]

General

Vatican cancels US bishops’ vote on sex abuse reform measures

Catholic News Agency November 12, 2018 22

By Ed Condon Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, has told the American bishops that they will not vote on two key proposals which had been expected to form the basis for [...]