The Dispatch
“Our tainted nature’s solitary boast”
If the sex abuse crisis has shown us how corrupt we can become, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary reminds us of the exalted […]
“I don’t know if they will ever reveal why he was murdered”
Special Report
Some friends believed Fr. Kunz’s work as an exorcist or his investigations of sexual corruption in the priesthood must have been factors in his 1998 […]
The abuse of secrecy and the secrecy of abuse
Analysis
Clerical elitism did not cause sex abuse, nor did sex abuse cause clerical elitism, but the link between the two things is certainly very real. […]
Essay
Natural No Maas: The disintegration of the concept of all law in Luther
Classical Protestantism is a voluntarist form of Christianity, such a radically different view of human and divine will that it must be differentiated from non-voluntarist […]
Features
Cardinal Wuerl seeks to clarify recent comments; says, “This is a very grave moment…”
In an interview with CWR, the Archbishop of Washington, DC, responds to questions about his recent appearance on the Salt & Light television network. […]
Features
Emerging from Scandal: The Necessary Steps Forward
The Catholic Church in America needs bishops with strong backbones, men who are not worried about their next promotion, or about the next assault from […]
Features
The McCarrick Mess
The bishops of the United States—all of us—should petition the Holy Father to form a team, made up mostly of faithful lay Catholics, to empower […]
Special Report
The unsolved murder of Fr. Alfred Kunz
Twenty years ago, a priest was found with his throat slit at a parish school in rural Wisconsin. Today, investigators are urging the public to […]
Features
The Current Crisis and the Order of the Laity
Bishop Scharfenberger’s call for “an independent commission led by well-respected, faithful lay leaders” should be heeded, for it is far superior to Cardinal Wuerl’s proposal and […]
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The man who has no room for play or sports in any form misses much of what we are. […]
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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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Ananthi Mathur:
Thank you for sharing this good article, Virginity with discernment
Stephen:
I have long thought, that one of the reasons why many clergy and laity begin to go astray, in whatever…
Jacob:
Just a few ideas: having read some descriptions of sex abuse by priests and their comments to the victims, it…
