Two significant interviews dropped late last week, in which key figures in the organization of the upcoming meeting of the heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences on the theme of child protection gave their views […]
The Vatican finally announced the members of the organizing committee responsible for preparing the meeting of the heads of the world’s bishops’ conferences this coming February 21-24. Most of the early reaction and attention has […]
The Apostle Paul exhorts us to give thanks in all circumstances (cf. 1 Thess. 5:18). I confess some difficulty in meeting this exhortation, however, when it comes to the circumstances of our first and final […]
In the wake of reports that the intrusion of the Holy See on the proceedings of the USCCB fall meeting in Baltimore was even more extensive than previously understood, and that the Holy See’s intrusion […]
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 […]
US Attorneys contacted the diocese of Buffalo, NY, in late May, to inform officials of their interest in documents related to abuse reports after 1990 and therefore susceptible of prosecution under federal criminal statutes. Terrence […]
Si cela vous plaît, très Saint Père, pouvons-nous avoir notre Visite Apostolique maintenant? The US and Roman theaters of the crisis in the Catholic Church have entered a new phase of carelessness—of the reputations of […]
30 October 2018 – ROME – Human remains have been uncovered during the course of renovation work being done in a building attached to the Apostolic Nunciature to Italy and reportedly owned by the Holy […]
The burgeoning crisis of leadership in the Catholic Church that is the result of organized coverup and winking at rot in the moral culture of the clergy, high and low, was largely absent from the […]
The removal of Bishop Martin Holley from the See of Memphis, Tennessee on Wednesday sets in even higher relief the one thing needful: justice must be seen to be done. But Bishop Holley’s removal, at […]
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