Jeanie Hannaman

By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Guardian, (Complicit Clergy) - In the case of serial child molester and retired Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker, the cover-up failed... But it wasn’t for lack of trying by a coalition of high-ranking church officials and sympathetic judges, who prioritized the predator’s comfort above justice for his innumerable victims until the evidence against him was so overwhelming that – rather than stand the humiliation of a public trial – he pleaded guilty last Tuesday.

By Josué Luis Hernández, OnePeterFive - Amidst this dead of night within the Church — wherein all seems obscured by a disorienting darkness; by mists and shadows; by strange and unfamiliar shapes and sounds that unsettle our senses, challenge our confidence and shake the very foundations of our faith — I want to affirm that the Church’s Magisterium, nevertheless, remains a stalwart and immovable guide. The Magisterium of the Church is and always will be a light in the darkness. It remains now, as ever, an infallible means of dispelling falsehood, confusion and error and of bringing forth the clarity of truth. But in order to see this we must understand the Magisterium properly.

By Peter Wolfgang, National Catholic Register - Catholic political activism is at a crossroads. For about 40 years the pro-life and pro-family movements had a home within the Republican Party, while a small minority continued to fight for the soul of the Democratic Party... Two Supreme Court rulings, one inventing a right to same-sex civil marriage and one repealing the invention of a right to abortion, have caused both political parties to shift to the left on the social issues on which we have historically fought. New cultural issues have emerged, some of them the results of battles previously won or lost.