Catholic Church

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Many people in many nations these days say they “don’t recognize” their country anymore. Between radical changes in sexual morals and social behavior, the inability to state the obvious like “what is a woman,” claims of racism and “hate” over everyday social frictions, massive unregulated immigration, and wholesale dismissals of the past as irretrievably evil, it’s no wonder. But it is a wonder that similar complaints – not exactly the same, but closely related – also arise often enough now about disorienting changes in the Church.

By Msgr. Richard C. Antall, Crisis Magazine - If the nonsense at St. Patrick’s had happened on my watch, I think I would have stopped the whole carnival, turned off the microphones and lights, and called the cops. This is not a criticism of Cardinal Dolan, whom I personally esteem, nor of his staff, who acted out of Christian charity-cum-New Yorker-tolerance of the weird. This is just a cranky old pastor, not famous for open-mindedness about things ecclesial, drawing a line in the shifting sands of our confused Church.

By Christopher R. Altieri, Catholic World Report - What have we seen in the way of leadership from Pope Francis in the intervening quinquennium?... Five years of failure... Pope Francis has refused to defrock a confessed child molester or even remove him from the College of Cardinals... Pope Francis has protected a favorite Argentinian prelate he himself raised to the episcopate and threatened those who sought justice from the Church... Pope Francis has presided over the appalling miscarriage of justice that has allowed a powerful celebrity artist-cleric not only to escape punishment for the abuse of as many as forty-one victims ...