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By Donald DeMarco, National Catholic Register - Truth is intimately connected with reality; the lie has no connection with reality. In this regard, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s remark that “one word of truth outweighs the whole world” is itself true. The lie has no weight... The “true or false” test operates on this same level. The answers are “right” or “wrong” according to whether they are “true” or “false.”

By Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (2012-2017), has granted LifeSiteNews an interview in which he discusses in depth the problems of the current clerical sex abuse crisis... In this discussion about the abuse crisis, Müller does not shy away from pointing out that the Church needs to address the problem of practiced homosexuality in the ranks of the clergy, saying that "homosexual conduct of clergymen can in no case be tolerated."

By JD Flynn, CNA - For many American Catholics, however, the Vatican’s reticence to allow action seems to reflect a so-called paralysis of analysis. Some worry that episcopal malfeasance will go on unaddressed long after the February meeting-- that while the pope seeks global consensus, reform in the U.S. will remain at a standstill.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Clericalism is said to be the main sin that has given rise to the sex-abuse crisis in the Church today. The official statements blaming clericalism rather than the “dirty little secret” of a gay network have often been met with cynicism. A recent joke making the internet rounds goes: “Another priest has been dismissed from the clerical state for practicing clericalism with an adolescent boy.”