Religion Dispatches
No matter how Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is decided finally, restrictions unto bans…
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On Halloween, Rhode Island police announced that they had arrested Father James Jackson, the pastor…
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The “Synod on Synodality” which Pope Francis launched with minimal fanfare this month is the…
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Church councils are never simple things, neither when they’re happening nor in their aftermath. Although…
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In a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, fellow Catholic Ross Douthat criticized…
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Feminist liberationists have long claimed that discrimination against women is the model for favoring the power of elites over the rest with negative consequences worldwide. The Amazonian Synod only reinforced the claim. The mistakes were breathtakingly obvious and relatively easy to fix.
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Concerned as we rightly are about the immediate human cost of Lori Gilbert Kaye’s awful murder and the trauma inflicted on the Poway and national Jewish communities, hardly anyone has delved into the theological causes behind Earnest’s actions, as confused as they may be.
Read MoreThe cover-up has nothing to do with politics. It’s about saving face, protecting priestly friends, and saving the Church from scandal.
Read MoreBehind the official explanation for the continued ban on birth control was the need to maintain the link between sex and procreation, which was essential to the maintenance of the traditional, subordinate role of women, a key concern of the Catholic Church.
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Nearly five years into Pope Francis papacy, with its great expectations for a revival of…
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