Catholic Church

By C. C. Pecknold, First Things - For a pontificate stressing synodality to a degree that has caused Ross Douthat to regularly worry about the “Anglicanizing” of the Catholic Church… Synods have been a mixed bag for over fifty years, but the attempt to elevate “synodality” brings with it all the tensions and divisions that we see unfolding within Orthodoxy. It might be that the problem is “synodality for me but not for thee.” But it also might just be that synodality doesn’t govern the Church well.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - faith is a way of knowing and thus also a way of “seeing,” but more in the intellectual sense, such as when we say, “Oh! Now I see” when we grasp a point intellectually. Although we know and “see” by faith, spiritual theologians such as St. John of the Cross remind us that the seeing and knowing by faith is “obscure.”

By Fr. John Zuhlsdorf, Fr. Z's Blog - Michael Voris posted a “Vortex” video which could serve as a pretty good status quaestionis about The Present Crisis (which term the US Nuncio used during his USCCB speech even after the USCCB was gutted by the Congregation and Francis)... You can be a fan of Mr. Voris or not, but it seems to me that this video is a pretty good summary of various aspects of The Present Crisis....

By Kimberly Eiten, WJZ - Archbishop William Lori has agreed to open church files to state investigators... “Any measure that we do to bring about healing must first and foremost be done with the survivors in mind,” Lori said... The Pope asked the bishops to delay formal action at the conference, something survivors may now instead see in court... Attorneys have done this before in Minnesota, where the legal maneuver worked at the state level...