This whole business is bad, from top to bottom. Whether Fiducia supplicans was intended as a sop to Germans hell-bent on synodalizing the Catholic Church’s understanding of sexual morality, or as part of the larger […]
It isn’t every day that the top papal lieutenant goes on the record to discuss something about which he’d just said there would be no further clarification, but that’s what just happened in an interview […]
The first full news cycle after the Vatican released a declaration allowing pastors to offer blessings for couples in irregular situations was filled with predictable handwringing, improbable popesplaining, and yet another round of doomsaying, mostly […]
Hyper-analysis of Pope Francis’s Angelus this Sunday will likely run well into the week. That’s not because of anything he said or didn’t, but because of his brief and previously unannounced visit to Rome’s Tiber […]
The Catholic world is in an uproar over the ouster of a bishop with an outsized public profile that he acquired mostly through social media. If you’re Catholic and you pay attention to these things, […]
Five victims of the disgraced former Jesuit celebrity artist-priest, Fr. Marko Rupnik, have issued a terse statement following news that Pope Francis has reversed course and decided to waive the statute of limitations so the […]
Make no mistake. The only transparent thing in Pope Francis’s volte-face on Fr. Marko Rupnik is its late and utterly reactionary character. Unless and until Francis tries his depraved former confrère in full view of […]
There will be time for a cold and surgically precise reconstruction of what we know about the whole sordid Rupnik affair – it will be a long read and gruesome – but for now, let […]
A disgraced former Jesuit accused of heinous sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse allegedly perpetrated against well more than a dozen victims – most of them women religious – over some three decades, Fr. Marko Rupnik, […]
“Bonkers,” is the only word for the week that was, especially on the Catholic news beat, and with particular regard for a set of official questions called dubia in the technical language of ecclesialese. For […]
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