The treasure the Jesuits squandered (Catholic Culture): “As a conservative young man in a liberal environment, (Father) Paul Mankowski had been viewed with some suspicion from his earliest days as a Jesuit.”
LifeSiteNews: An Autopsy (Catholic Culture): “I remember when LifeSiteNews was on my list of sources to check almost every day to stay up-to-date on what was going on in the Catholic world.”
Rome Advances Dorothy Day Toward Sainthood (Catholics for the Common Good – Substack): “The Vatican office that handles every sainthood case in the world, the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, has approved the first portion of the file assembled to make Dorothy Day a saint.”
Government’s Sex Abuse Hypocrisy Comes Due (First Things): “What struck me as much less just, and laced with an even bigger helping of hypocrisy, was the refusal of public authorities … to acknowledge the same or worse abuse problems in their own institutions, and deal with them in the same punishing manner.”
Wendell Berry and the Calling of All Creatures (Modern Age): “The road ceases to be a ‘way,’ a passage to elsewhere, and becomes ‘a place.’ But this only becomes clear over time.”
Hans Urs von Balthasar: A Primer (The Imaginative Conservative): “Born on 12 August 1905 in Lucerne, Switzerland, to an incredibly gifted family of considerable wealth, Hans Urs von Balthasar is a luminary in the history of twentieth-century Catholic theology … “
Cardinal Sarah and the Crisis in Bioethics (The Catholic Thing): “Cardinal Robert Sarah’s address this summer to the European Parliament identifies a foundational problem in contemporary bioethical discourse: the widening gap between language and reality.”
Something Is Rotten in the Church in Sweden (Diane Montagna’s Substack): “Catholics in the Diocese of Stockholm call for an apostolic visitation amid reports of corruption”
A Message from Elise Ann Allen (Crux): “Many regular Crux readers will know that this has been a year of transition for the company, and for me personally, following the death of my husband, Crux’s president and Editor-in-Chief, John L. Allen Jr., in January.”
Look East: Pope Leo’s concrete lesson in Synodality (Global Catholic): “Pope Leo XIV’s reform of Eastern Catholic canon law strengthens synodal self-government without weakening papal primacy, offering global Catholicism a concrete, centuries-old model of how hierarchy and synodality belong together.”
3 kidnap victims die in Nigeria, held in same camp as 37 abducted from worship service (Christian Post): “Three of 11 people seized from Nigeria’s Kaduna state have died while held captive, in the same forest hideout used to confine 37 worshippers taken during Easter Sunday services at three churches in a nearby community.”
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