The Vatican has doubled down on its insistence it never received any accusation of sexual abuse against Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta until well after Zanchetta, the former bishop of Orán, Argentina, was ensconced in a position […]
Whatever else 2018 was, it was the year in which the crisis of clerical sexual abuse and coverup revealed itself to be a cancer within the leadership culture of the Catholic Church. Protracted, persistent, and […]
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 2018 Synod on Youth, Faith and Vocational Discernment was overshadowed, in part, by the “Summer of Shame,” as it was often termed in the media, as clerical sex abuse took center-stage from damning accusations […]
Bishop Joseph Strickland, 59, has served as bishop of Tyler, Texas, since 2012. A native Texan, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Dallas in 1985. His first assignment as a priest was […]
The president of Ave Maria University in Southwest Florida will not have his contract renewed, the university announced this week. In a press release issued on October 8, AMU Board of Trustees Chairman Michael Timmis […]
“We as a Church need to restore our confidence that we have a message which is solid. Our house is built on rock,” Archbishop Eamon Martin, president of Irish bishops’ conference says, noting: “If we […]
“On its face, the arc of Archbishop Viganò’s story is straightforward,” says JD Flynn of CNA, “but the the fallout from the Viganò testimony has […]
What Fr. Martin writes and says seems guided more by GLAAD than by God, and is more aligned to the thinking of the World than […]
The Church’s current crisis is a crisis of fidelity and a crisis of holiness, a crisis of infidelity and a crisis of sin. It is […]
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