Jeanie Hannaman

By Michael Warren Davis and Damian Thompson, Catholic Herald - Leading US bishops and senior figures in the Vatican are – quite disgracefully – playing politics with sex abuse. That is the first thing American Catholics need to understand about the chaos currently reigning in their Church. Indeed, it is something that Catholics all over the world need to know, because a crisis like this is likely to engulf their national churches in the near future. That is why the Catholic Herald is running this analysis in both its new US edition and the 130-year-old British magazine.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - it is not surprising that the coverage of Catholic news has also become more openly partisan. Catholic journalists denounce and ridicule each other through the social media. One of the Pope’s closest confidants calls for the suppression of the world’s largest Catholic television network.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - In the video below, an old comedy routine by Mad TV shows how many modern sensibilities where non-existent, even just fifty years ago. A pregnant mother is shown having a Martini and smoking. Children are shown riding bikes without head gear, etc. Of course, like most comedy, and like all Mad TV spoofs, the topic is taken to excess for sheer humor of hyperbole.

By Steve Skojec, OnePeterFive Blog - Even within the resistance to what is being perpetrated against our beloved Holy Mother Church, there is an increasing factionalization. Conspiracy theories deepen and distract and divide us as we become fixated on ways to make sense of what is going on and how to fix it. Bitterness and divisions set in, even over petty things. There is a seeming intractability, a hardening of positions that leads to endless, circular arguments about things we ultimately cannot change.