
Unified Catholic Opposition to Trump’s “Muslim Ban” is Wishful Thinking
It’s understandable that with people grasping for a light in the darkness in the wake…
Read MoreIt’s understandable that with people grasping for a light in the darkness in the wake…
Read MoreWhite Catholics voted for Trump at 52 percent to the 45 percent they gave Hillary Clinton.
Read MoreWriting in Crux, associate editor John Allen cautions against the “overblown” narrative of “perceived resistance from…
Read MoreThe U.S. bishops’ semi-annual meeting, which concluded in Baltimore on Thursday, was one giant raspberry…
Read MoreAs Catholic sex abuse scandals once again dominate headlines from Boston to Belgium, and even the fast-track canonization of Pope John Paul II is marred by questions of culpability, the role of the Catholic hierarchy in enabling clergy abuse seems indisputable, admitted even by die-hard church partisans like the Catholic League. But what’s less understood is how these same patterns persist in today’s Church, where demographic shifts and a dwindling priesthood may be creating a new set of scenarios for abuse. The story of Katia Birge is a case in point.
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