Articles by Diogenes

Going into the June meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Father Tom Reese was not happy. The American bishops had not been listening to him. At their June meeting the US bishops […]

Roy Bourgeois doesn’t want to be a member of the Catholic Church— at least, not the Church as we know it. “I will never be at peace being in any organization that would exclude others,” […]

Even before the Pope’s apostolic constitution erecting ordinariates for Anglican converts was released, there was no question but that it had the right people pouting. Across the board, among Catholics, Anglicans, and neutral spectators, hostility […]

Canadian collector of kiddie-porn and retired bishop of Antigonish Raymond Lahey had another court date in November. This was Chapter Four of…twenty?…twenty-five? in Lahey’s serialized tumbling act of painful legal slapstick. Before the jester took […]

Now here’s a head-shaking story from the Chicago Sun-Times. A number of Chicago-area women report that, in a period from the 1940s until the 1960s while they were in public high schools, they were required […]

The website bears an aptly unwieldy name: “Think before you speak. Don’t say ‘That’s so gay.’” A project of the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, the campaign employs posters, print ads, and videos with the […]

Sister Fran Ferder, FSPA, deplores the fact that the apostolic visitation of religious sisters is unlikely to involve a holy exchange of spiritual goods on the model of Mary’s visit to Elizabeth. Writing in the […]

For Lent, Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley announced an initiative to bring Catholics back to the sacrament of reconciliation. He asked all pastors of the archdiocese to arrange for confessions every Wednesday evening between 6:30 and […]

Five years ago, following the election of Pope Benedict XVI, I wrote the column below, reflecting on how the papal election would affect Catholic liberals. When my column first appeared, a friendly reader commented: Let’s […]

The official, authorized, expert studies of the sex-abuse crisis in the US have discerned “no clear pattern of homosexual behavior.” Odd, then, that the latest statistics continue to show that more than 80 percent of […]