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St. Catherine of Siena and leaving the Church

April 29, 2025 Thomas McDermott, OP 34

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 […]

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Saint Charles Borromeo and other holy bishops

November 3, 2023 Dawn Beutner 12

“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 […]

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St. Charles Borromeo and the key principles of Catholic reform

November 4, 2022 Fr. Charles Fox 20

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 […]

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Pope Francis’s “open and incomplete” reform of the Curia

June 13, 2022 Christopher R. Altieri 8

“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 […]

The Dispatch

Rule by law has replaced rule of law at the Vatican

November 20, 2021 Christopher R. Altieri 10

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” […]

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The role of clericalism in the current crisis

April 3, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 25

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 […]

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Pope Francis exhorts Curia to avoid “unbalanced and debased mindset of plots and small cliques”

December 21, 2017 Catholic News Agency 25

“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 Dispatch

Making sense of Pope Francis’ statement about “the liturgical reform”

August 25, 2017 Christopher R. Altieri 41

The Holy Father is focusing his (and our) attention on the rational substance of the reform process. […]

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George Weigel’s essay, “Between Two Synods”, for the January 2015 issue of First Things is an important piece for at least three reasons. First, he masterfully summarizes what happened at the Synod, without recourse to […]

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