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Matthew Schmitz

A truce that cannot hold
August 16, 2018
Too many Catholic leaders have treated Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s alleged crimes as an isolated issue. Cardinal Donald Wuerl told an interviewer: “I don’t think this is some massive, massive crisis.” Bishop Robert Barron has said that any suggestion of widespread corruption is “deeply unjust”. Such claims miss the point. Men at the highest levels of
The abuse crisis casts doubt on the whole post-Vatican II settlement
August 16, 2018
Since 1968, Church leaders have tried to preserve a fragile truce. But repeated compromises have fostered a culture of deceit
Why ‘Uncle Ted’ didn’t want to be called a father
August 02, 2018
The Archbishop's easygoing persona was a social strategy – and a theological stance
Matthew Schmitz: The avuncular archbishop
August 02, 2018
Theodore McCarrick did not want to be known as a father. He encouraged young men and boys to call him “uncle”, and called them his nephews in turn. He wrote them flirtatious letters signed Uncle Ted or Uncle T. According to the Vatican journalist Rocco Palmo, he was in fact “known to everyone from reporters
A Picnic that’s gone stale
July 19, 2018
Joan Lindsay’s 1967 mystery novel Picnic at Hanging Rock, adapted for film by Peter Weir in 1975, is now a mini-series playing on Amazon Video in the US and BBC Two in Britain. The creators of the new series no doubt knew that they could not outdo Weir’s sensuous, evocative film. But it is easy
On slavery, no compromise was possible. The same goes for Roe v Wade
July 05, 2018
US abortion law is based on a great lie. But the new Supreme Court Justice could help to strike it down
A lifeline for the unborn
July 05, 2018
Since Roe v Wade was unjustly decided in 1973, American law has approved the killing of 60 million children. At present rates we kill 926,190 each year, 2,537 each day, 105 each hour. Because our law teaches contempt for life, these dead have gone largely unnamed, unburied and unmourned. In 1992, Justice Anthony Kennedy had
The West is rediscovering the sacred
June 21, 2018
In the global culture war, secularism is suddenly facing a strong challenge
Where next for secularism?
June 21, 2018
In nation after nation, a global culture war is being fought on the same battle lines: citizen against cosmopolitan, populist against expert, democrat against judge. Bound up with these battles is a dispute between those who believe that authority has a divine origin against those who would derive it from formal procedure. Secularism is being
St John Paul II’s chilling prophecy has been fulfilled in Ireland
June 07, 2018
Anyone wondering what happened in the abortion vote should read Evangelium Vitae
Matthew Schmitz: St John Paul II’s chilling prophecy
June 07, 2018
Ireland has become the first nation to use the popular vote to strip the unborn of the right to life. It is a sign of just how far the cult of proceduralism has gone that this fact tends to impress us favourably. Anyone who doubted that we live in an age of democratic idolatry need
How Europeans are fighting back against Sunday trading
May 24, 2018
Changes to the law have made it harder than ever for ordinary Catholics to honour Sunday's day of rest. But there is hope
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