Wow. “This morning at Mass, I witnessed something I have never seen, and words still mostly fail me.” Thus begins Dr. Susan Reynolds‘ stunning story of what happened at her parish during Mass in response to the abuse crisis. Note that Dr. Reynolds, who teaches theology at Candler School of...
The Church is in crisis. Whatever you make of specific accusations against Pope Francis or other clerics, there’s no question the sex abuse crisis is tearing the Church apart. What is the way forward? As Robert P. George and others have pointed, the current crisis can be understood, at...
Why is there scandal in the Church? One answer: We took our eyes off Christ. Like Peter walking on the water, when we take our eyes off Christ, we sink. We took our eyes off Christ when we thought a good idea to water down the Gospel with worldly wisdom....
We’re heartbroken. Hurt. Angry. Frustrated. Shocked. And so much more. The mess we find ourselves in as a Church is deep. Very deep and each day it seems to get deeper. After a summer of compounding scandal we can’t just sit back and watch our Church suffer, we...
What really happened? Earlier today, the following claim started circulating around social media: that the crowds in St. Peter’s Square for Pope Francis’ weekly General Audience were chanting “Viganò! Viganò! Viganò!” – and that it was caught by the Vatican News cameras. “Viganò” would of course be a reference to...
“Effeminacy” in men is a vice. Or at least it used to be considered as such. Grab a copy of the great St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica and open it up to II-II, question 138, article 1. The topic is: “Whether effeminacy is opposed to perseverance?” First, he explains what...
