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Cardinal Fernandez discusses Fr. Rupnik: What did we learn?

January 25, 2025 Christopher R. Altieri 31

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 […]

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McCarrick and theological dissent in the Sixties: Observations of a contemporary

December 13, 2019 John F. Kippley 33

The investigation into how the former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was promoted up to the level he enjoyed before his misdeeds became public knowledge is necessary and may yield helpful results. However, besides the question of […]

The Dispatch

Analysis: Abuse summit ends with more questions than answers

March 1, 2019 Catholic News Agency 7

Vatican City, Mar 1, 2019 / 01:30 pm (CNA).- There was a moment during the final press conference of this month’s Vatican abuse summit that, for many observers, symbolizes a theme that ran throughout the […]

Features

What the Bishop Zanchetta case tells us about Church leadership

January 22, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 26

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 […]

The Dispatch

Obamacare champion Sister Carol Keehan will retire in June

December 21, 2018 Anne Hendershott 33

Hanging up the presidential pen she received for her role in helping to push through President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act in 2010, Sister Carol Keehan will retire on June 30, 2019 from her role […]

Features

Cardinal Müller seeks to thread the needle, but misses the canonical mark

December 2, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 19

The Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, granted an interview to Italy’s La Stampa recently, in which he struck a critical stance toward the former nuncio to […]

The Dispatch

The Vatican obfuscates even while preparing for February meeting on abuse

November 23, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 18

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 Dispatch

Cardinal Cupich: “The Pope has a bigger agenda”

August 28, 2018 Catherine Harmon 101

The cardinal archbishop of Chicago said of Pope Francis’ critics: “Quite frankly, they also don’t like him because he’s a Latino.” […]

News

Pope: ‘I will not say a single word’ on Vigano’s allegations of cover-up

August 26, 2018 Catholic News Agency 65

During an in-flight press conference as he returned from Ireland, Francis said people should make up their own minds about the ex-nuncio’s claims that the Pope […]

Essay

At the altar, yet far from the Lord

August 25, 2018 Fr. Charles Fox 9

How can priests who are not only intimately united to the Eucharistic Lord but who also receive the graces of the Eucharist each day betray […]

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