In the wake of so many clerical sex abuse scandals, to many people the Catholic Church appears hypocritical and bankrupt morally and spiritually. In the midst of such trying times, how can Catholics justify remaining […]
“For a bishop, as God’s steward, must be blameless.”1 When Saint Paul wrote these words to Saint Titus in the first century, he was reminding Titus to be careful in his appointment of bishops for […]
The Catholic Counter-Reformation of the second-half of the sixteenth century had many important protagonists. One of the men who did the most to advance the cause of reform on the practical level was St. Charles […]
“If the season ended today…” is a favorite of baseball pundits with little to say and nothing to lose. I thought of that throughout last week and over the weekend, as I kept up some […]
However the Vatican “maxi-trial” of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu et al. shakes out, it has made one thing inescapably clear already: Rule by law has replaced rule of law at the Vatican. “Rule by law” […]
The Archbishop of Philadelphia, Charles J. Chaput, recently delivered remarks that focused on the leadership crisis in the Church. The churchman — a leader widely respected and admired for good reason — was right in […]
“The universal nature of the Curia’s service,” the Holy Father told Curia members in the annual pre-Christmas address, “… wells up and flows out from […]
The Holy Father is focusing his (and our) attention on the rational substance of the reform process. […]
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