There are some lives that even the most optimistic among us dare not eulogize; Theodore E. McCarrick’s life might very well fall into that category. Once the highest prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, the former…
On Thursday, while Americans were celebrating our proud heritage of liberty and courage, the Vatican was concluding an ecclesial trial. Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former papal nuncio to the United States, was accused of the delict of schism, tried,…
A staunchly conservative Catholic bishop is retiring, leaving behind a legacy of fighting for orthodoxy. Lichtenstein’s archbishop Wolfgang Haas has tendered his resignation leading the nationwide archdiocese of Vaduz, having reached the typical retirement age of 75. Haas’s time leading…
As polarization within the Catholic Church increases, faithful Catholics need to consider how to address the swelling ranks of leftists and modernism within the Church’s hierarchy. Some have proposed schism as the answer: rejecting the authority of the Pope because…
It is impossible to overstate the tone-deafness of America’s Catholic bishops in recent years. They seem determined to give the Catholic Church a black eye. The Theodore McCarrick scandal — he was a prominent cardinal in Washington, D.C., who preyed…
As usual, Catholics have now learned about the predatory behavior of a prominent bishop not from Church officials but from the media. A Dutch magazine recently revealed that Bishop Carlos Belo of East Timor, who won the Nobel Peace Prize…
John Quinn, the late archbishop of San Francisco, was one of the most liberal prelates in the post-Vatican II Church in America. A few years before he died, he told a group of priests that Pope Francis had blessed his…
The aftershocks of the Theodore McCarrick scandal are continuing to rock the Church. The latest one came last Thursday. The defrocked cardinal “has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in Massachusetts in 1974,” the…
Pope Francis recently rejected a preening offer of resignation by German Cardinal Reinhard Marx. It is hard to say which gesture was phonier: the offer or the refusal. Intended as proof of the Church’s commitment to “reform,” this exchange between…
