Catholic Church

By Gene Thomas Gomulka, Church Militant - The even greater "elephant in the room" that neither the media nor the U.S. bishops — including Bp. Barron — want to expose is the amount of abuse that Pope Francis himself covered up in Buenos Aires prior to his papal election. How can the Pope discipline bishops for covering up or under-reporting sex abuse when most bishops know he himself covered-up innumerable abuse cases in his archdiocese with a population of 2.5 million Catholics?

By Matthew Schmitz, First Things - George Will is drawn to the false charms of liberalism. He now says that conservatives “must accept the task of reconciling people to the disruption and churning that accompanies economic and cultural dynamism.” It would be a remarkable display of economic and cultural dynamism, one Will presumably would be obliged to cheer, if he and the other True Cons were replaced by writers......

By Daniel Philpott, Public Discourse - On July 8, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched a Commission on Unalienable Rights, charging it with the task of rethinking the foundations of human rights in a time when “gross violations continue throughout the world, sometimes even in the name of human rights” and when “International institutions designed and built to protect human rights have drifted from their original mission.”

By Debra Heine, PJ Media - (Damian Thompson) editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald announced last week that he is parting ways with the weekly paper because he and “the new owners" “do not agree on the future direction of the company.”… he made the announcement on Twitter following his recent hard-hitting appearance on EWTN's "The World Over" in which he made a number of highly critical remarks about the Vatican's Amazon Synod working document (which he called "garbage"), the cowardly Catholic bishops of the United Kingdom and the United States, and the scandal-plagued pope who refuses to answer any questions about any the clerical abuse scandals currently rocking the Vatican.