In 1975, Father Richard Ginder, a priest of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, published Binding with Briars. The book, though revolting at times, sheds more light on the clerical sexual abuse scandal than perhaps any other book […]
Two appointments made big news out of the Vatican this week, one to the leadership of the US capital see and the other to the top spot at the Vatican department tasked with overseeing religious […]
“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to walk from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. “I don’t much care where—” said Alice. […]
In what is now a decades-long trend, reports of American Catholic dioceses declaring bankruptcy continue to filter into the news. To a large extent, this financial retreat is fallout from the ongoing clergy sexual abuse […]
Catholic colleges can have a positive impact on a student’s faith, but what impact does attending college have in general? Social scientists have studied and surveyed the impact, and college attendance is clearly linked to higher religiosity. […]
Introduction Ecclesial grammar today is shaped by terms such as inclusivity, diversity, the “spirit,” and “being pastoral.” At times, these terms have arisen through the unconscious adoption of the framework of liberation theology, particularly its […]
St. Ignatius of Loyola’s first rule for thinking with the Church is: “We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things, the […]
What do rank and file Catholics—the very Catholics synodality is meant to tap into—think about the Church’s synodality efforts? The Church herself tried to gauge this in an aborted X (formerly Twitter) poll. Of course, […]
After college, I was a member of a small, traditionalist Presbyterian church in my native Northern Virginia. Most everyone was politically conservative, and there were few formally endorsed ministries because, church leadership argued, only ecclesial […]
Recently rumors have been flying that Pope Francis is preparing to impose stringent restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass. Of course, unfounded rumors out of the Vatican are not new, and some journalists have not been able […]
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