Jeanie Hannaman

By Dominic V. Cassella, The Catholic Thing - As the Church looks to the future under Pope Leo XIV, it must do so in prayer and doctrinal sobriety. The office of Peter is not strengthened by flattery, nor diminished by honest scrutiny. And given Pope Leo XIV’s interest in synodality, books such as Ultramontanism and Tradition can be a valuable stimulant to a wider, more fully Catholic discussion.

By Christopher Wells, Vatican News - The General Secretariat of the Synod releases “Pathways for the Implementation of the Synod”, which provides “an interpretive key for understanding the implementation phase of the Synod on Synodality.”... A new document from the Synod of Bishops is intended “to provide an interpretive key for understanding the implementation phase of the synodal process.”

By Francis X. Maier, First Things - There was a window from the late 1980s through the early 2000s when the sex abuse of minors seemed to be a predominantly Catholic Church problem. At least in the United States, that delusion is now dead. On June 17, the Wall Street Journal reported that sex abuse claims against the Boy Scouts of America, totaling some 60,000, now exceed $7 billion in value. This is more than double the financial resources allotted by the organization for compensating victims in its 2022 bankruptcy settlement. ...