Rewind. It’s 1970, and Walter Conkrite sounds this demographic siren on CBS Nightly News: “The stakes in this battle are far greater than any other we have ever fought. . . . The experts we interviewed […]
It’s not often that Catholic theology breaks into the news cycle, but this is just what happened when Vice President J. D. Vance gave an interview to FOX News defending the Trump administration’s actions regarding […]
The Jubilee for the World of Communications took place Jan. 24-26 at the Vatican. It was the first such global gathering planned for the 2025 Jubilee Year, and parts of it were quite lovely. A […]
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” Wise cautionary words for those entering today’s contested political and commentarial scene from a Catholic point of view. However, I find that contemporary Catholic Social Thought in […]
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith is working—slowly—toward a full penal trial for the disgraced former celebrity artist-priest, Fr. Marko Rupnik (olim Fr. Marko Rupnik SJ), an accused abuser of dozens of victims, most of them […]
In 1975, Father Richard Ginder, a priest of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, published Binding with Briars. The book, though revolting at times, sheds more light on the clerical sexual abuse scandal than perhaps any other book […]
Two appointments made big news out of the Vatican this week, one to the leadership of the US capital see and the other to the top spot at the Vatican department tasked with overseeing religious […]
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where—” said Alice. […]
In what is now a decades-long trend, reports of American Catholic dioceses declaring bankruptcy continue to filter into the news. To a large extent, this financial retreat is fallout from the ongoing clergy sexual abuse […]
Catholic colleges can have a positive impact on a student’s faith, but what impact does attending college have in general? Social scientists have studied and surveyed the impact, and college attendance is clearly linked to higher religiosity. […]
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