New York Times columnist Timothy Egan chose to confront the widening scandal within the Catholic church — namely, the allegation that Pope Francis’s power base is a homosexual cabal within the Vatican, leading him to advance known pederasts — by…

Washington Many years ago in the early 1980s I was drawn ever so transiently into the bureaucratic intricacies of the Roman Catholic Church in America. There was a saintly priest at Indiana University, Fr. James Higgins, who was driven from…

I went over to the Vatican embassy today in Washington. It looked like a ghost town.    But I finally detected some stirring of souls at the embassy, after waving at the security cameras and ringing the chancery doorbell. Might…