On his trip back from Panama, Pope Francis appeared to defend the tradition of a celibate priesthood in the West….
Pope Francis spends much more time talking about this life than the next one. He is given to statements such…
There is a church in Rome called the Church of Domine Quo Vadis (Latin for “Lord, where are You going?”)….
It seems that for Pope Francis no priority is greater than patching up every religion except his own. As the…
Pope Francis lectured the American bishops this week on their “crisis of credibility” even as his own reputation took another…
Baltimore In the early days of Baltimore, if a Catholic leader had proposed a religious gathering at a swanky hotel,…
Atlanta Archbishop Wilton Gregory was a protégé of the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who played a leading role in the…
In late September, I started getting calls from concerned Catholics in Newark, New Jersey that Cardinal Joseph Tobin “had an…
Washington Back in late August, Pope Francis declared that he would “not say a word” about a letter from a…
