Jeanie Hannaman

Fr. Robert McTeigue, SJ, Crisis Magazine - Inevitably, in the face of dire statistics about the Church, someone will try to rally us, explaining that if we just start synodaling more earnestly, then all will be well... Such images are on my mind because of recently released data illustrating the demographic collapse of the Catholic Church in the United States. From 1999-2022, the yearly number of adult Catholics coming into the Church in the United States has declined 58 percent. A recent Pew study indicates that for every 100 adults coming into the Church in the United States, 800 people leave.

By Thomas V. Mirus, Catholic Culture - The Wall Street Journal recently featured the relationship between Catholicism and feminism in an article by Erika Bachiochi, titled “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope”... Bachiochi, a Catholic legal scholar and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is concerned that many young Catholics are turning away from feminism and thereby losing sight of the equal dignity of men and women. Instead of listening to the teaching of Pope St. John Paul II on the dignity of women, she says, many get their views from online anti-feminist reactionaries: