Sin Aboundeth

by Dan Hitchens

At the center of financial corruption are practices almost everybody would recognize as wicked. In the worst parts of the clergy, too, there are concentric circles of wrongdoing Continue Reading »

21 Jan 2019

A Tough Year Ahead

by George Weigel

A tough year lies ahead. Yet Christ, risen and triumphant, remains present and available in the Eucharist. Continue Reading »

2 Jan 2019

Bishops Unbound

by Bronwen McShea

In Before Church and State, Andrew Willard Jones describes a time when Christendom’s lay rulers were leaders in building the City of God. They “wielded the secular, temporal sword . . . bestowed on the Christian people by Christ himself.” In the medieval era, before sharp categorical . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2019

Avoiding Another Roman Fiasco In February

by George Weigel

It is urgent that the issues at hand be properly defined before Pope Francis's February 2019 meeting. Continue Reading »

5 Dec 2018

Confessions of a Catholic Whistleblower

by Siobhan M. O Connor

 I now seek to be part of the reform and renewal of the Church I love.  Continue Reading »

22 Nov 2018

Vatican Autocracy and the U.S. Bishops

by George Weigel

The bishops’ challenge now is to temper their ingrained deference to “Rome” and get on with devising responses to this crisis that are within their authority. Continue Reading »

21 Nov 2018

Hour of the Wolf

by Eve Tushnet

Jesus tells His apostles, “Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves” (Matt 10:16). But for many Catholics, the wolves have been our own shepherds. Continue Reading »

20 Nov 2018

Restoring Trust

by J. D. Flynn

The 2018 Fall General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops may be one of the most important meetings in the history of American Catholicism. Continue Reading »

9 Nov 2018

Roots of Catholic Anger

by George Weigel

Good priests and bishops deserve our support, affection, and gratitude as they, like the rest of us, deal with the fallout of this season of humiliation and purification. Continue Reading »

7 Nov 2018

A False Paradigm

by Michael Hanby

So much for the “new paradigm.” With the Church now mired in its most severe crisis since the Protestant Reformation, the heady talk of last spring now seems as distant as the “Catholic moment” or the “springtime of evangelization.” Rightly or wrongly, the idea of a gauzy mercy without . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2018