Jeanie Hannaman

February 25, 2019

Is the Church a Cage?, by Carl R. Trueman

By Carl R. Trueman, First Things - Is the Catholic Church a cage? The language of a recent New York Times article on the number of gay men in the Roman Catholic priesthood certainly implies that it is. The precise quotation comes from Father Bob Bussen, a priest in Utah: “Life in the closet is worse than scapegoating,” he said. “It is not a closet. It is a cage.”

February 23, 2019

Fr. Roger Landry: Renewing Spiritual Fatherhood

By Father Roger Landry, National Catholic Register - The sexual-abuse crisis in the Church has many contributing causes, each of which must be studied, addressed and eradicated... Among them, one of the most important is the lack of spiritual fatherhood shown in the crises’ three main aspects: the sexual abuse itself, the failure to confront and eliminate it, and the scandal to lie about it and cover it up... Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — the future Pope Benedict XVI — said in a March 2000 speech in Palermo, Sicily, “The crisis of fatherhood we are experiencing today is an element, perhaps the most important element, threatening man in his humanity.”

February 23, 2019

Celibacy Is the Answer to Abusive Priests, Not the Problem, by Carter Griffin

By Carter Griffin, MercatorNet - “If I had one hour to save the planet,” Albert Einstein reportedly quipped, “I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.”... It has now become excruciatingly clear that we have a problem in the clergy of the Catholic Church. Stories of clerical sexual abuse and episcopal negligence seem to be endless. We want the problem fixed, and we are all tempted to seize on the nearest shifty suspect. To many, that shifty suspect is priestly celibacy....

February 23, 2019

Dubia Cardinals Ask Bishops Where is the Church Going?

Courageous Priest - Before the drift in process, it seems that the difficulty is reduced to that of the abuse of minors, a horrible crime, especially when it is perpetrated by a priest, which is, however, only part of a much greater crisis. The plague of the homosexual agenda has been spread within the Church, promoted by organized networks and protected by a climate of complicity and a conspiracy of silence. The roots of this phenomenon are clearly found in that atmosphere of materialism, of relativism and of hedonism, in which the existence of an absolute moral law, that is without exceptions, is openly called into question.