The faithful took a pummeling, this year as last, though I noticed in preparing for this piece that I’d described 2021 as “the year of meh” in my review of it. It’s been a brutal […]
This Rupnik business is very bad. There’s no telling how bad it will be for Pope Francis, the Vatican, the Jesuits, or the Slovenian bishops. There’s plenty of bad to go around. Rupnik’s art is […]
The Cardinal Vicar for the Diocese of Rome, Angelo De Donatis, released a statement on Friday – late in the afternoon, Rome Time, heading into the Christmas weekend – regarding the disgraced celebrity Jesuit artist-priest, […]
The Diocese of Rome has issued its own statement regarding Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik, SJ, the world-famous Jesuit artist-priest accused of serial sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse of at least nine women over a period […]
What if I told you that a man with power of his own and access to more of it serially abused unsuspecting women who had turned to him for various reasons, both professional and personal, […]
Christianity haunts our culture. It appears to us as a phantom presence, pale shimmering and gossamer, which we glimpse from time to time – in places familiar, to make them strange; and in places strange, […]
“If half the things go half as well as they might,” I said to my students, “we’ll be very well off, indeed.” Then I told them: “The problem is that I know too much of […]
“Where does this leave us?” That was the question a friend put to me during the week, after news broke of another powerful cardinal in trouble for misbehaving with minors. Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard, emeritus of […]
It is sad to consider there is little of the new in the news that a cardinal turns out to be may be a rapist.* That the cardinal is a Frenchman – Jean-Pierre Cardinal Ricard, […]
There were a couple of Vatican communications fiascos recently. The dust appears to have settled on them – at least, folks appear to have moved on – but they are worth a second look. Consider […]
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