Catholic Church

By Rod Dreher, American Conservative - Cupich and Wuerl were acting as agents of Pope Francis to undermine the laity, and to undermine the reformist element of the US bishops. Mark that... This quote, from the NYT’s latest account of the conference, takes on a certain resonance in light of the Cupich-Wuerl conspiracy: “The summer of shame has marked a turning point in the way that Catholics, especially American Catholics, are perceiving the church,” Cathleen Kaveny, a Catholic legal and moral scholar at Boston College, said at a symposium in Baltimore on Sunday.....

By Michael Warsaw, National Catholic Register - Make no mistake: There are bishops who either still do not want to acknowledge the gravity of this crisis or who seem to favor alternatives that do not deliver the kind of full transparency and accountability that the Catholic faithful have been calling for... Regardless, we must continue to demand justice for victims and accountability from our leaders. We must continue to demand that the issues that caused this situation in the first place are rooted out once and for all.

By Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing - Human beings are unique in the universe in that they are themselves responsible for the ultimate status of what they shall be. Instinct does not guide them to a proper appreciation of what they are. They are to “rule” themselves. This self-rule is no easy matter. Its difficulty may be the reason why we are reluctant to devote much time to it.