Catholic Church

By Christopher Altieri, Catholic Herald - But the meeting was to discuss the ongoing crisis in the US Church, precipitated by the spectacular fall from grace of one of the hierarchy’s best-known and most influential members: the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore Edgar “Uncle Ted” McCarrick. Given that context, people asked how such an image could have been chosen to convey the spirit of the bishops’ response to the crisis.

By Russell Shaw, Catholic Exchange - The speaker was a highly sophisticated layman, possessor of a doctorate and professor of theology at a major Catholic university. We had been discussing the metastasizing scandals plaguing the Church—scandals concerning ex-Cardinal McCarrick, the Pennsylvania grand jury, what the Pope knew and when he knew it, and on and on. Then, unexpectedly, my companion said this: “There is something truly demonic about all this. The Catholic Church was virtually the last voice being raised against the sexual revolution. And that voice has been silenced.”….

By Kathryn Jean Lopez, The Patriot Post - I’ve been thinking a lot about priests lately. In truth, I often do, as some of my best friends do happen to wear Roman collars. Of course, you know why I’d be thinking about them even more lately. For priests who seek holiness in loving service to God’s people — striving to see God in every person they encounter, these are grueling times.

By Dr. Jared Staudt, Those Catholic Men - Dialogue is about conversation centered on sharing ideas in hope of fostering greater cooperation. Fr. James Schall points out the difficulty of such a conversation with Muslim leaders given the fact that we do not share a common revelation—Muslims reject the Trinity and the divinity of Christ—and, unlike the Church, there is no central authority in Islam. Even more crucially, it is difficult to find common ground in the natural law.