Jeanie Hannaman

By Gene Thomas Gomulka, Complicit Clergy - Three U.S. cardinals are soon expected to retire, all of whom have been accused of covering up for both predator priests and priests reported for engaging in sexual misconduct. The cardinals, New York’s Timothy Dolan, Chicago’s Blase Cupich, and Washington, D.C.’s Wilton Gregory; in addition to being accused of failing to discipline predators and sexually active priests, are also accused of unjustly punishing whistleblower priests and seminarians who have reported predatory behavior, sexual misconduct, and episcopal cover-ups.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - In the Sunday Gospel, the Lord Jesus is asking a crucial question. The word crucial here is selected carefully; it comes from the Latin cruces, meaning “cross.” Indeed, looming over this entire gospel reading is the cross. In it, Jesus makes the second prediction of His passion, death, and resurrection. It is in the context of this teaching that the Lord asks the “crucial” question of us: What is most central in your life? Let’s look at this gospel passage in five stages.