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Traditionis Custodes: When “professional Catholic” squabbling spills over

July 27, 2021

For millions of Catholics around the world who find comfort in the traditional Latin Mass, the fights of the rectory and professional Catholic class have once again struck them at home.

New Survivor Reference Panel for Catholic Church in England and Wales

June 23, 2021

“At the centre of our work is ensuring that victims and survivors voices are heard,” Afzal said. “This refreshed Survivor Reference Panel is one important part of our overall engagement with victims and survivors, who we will seek to engage with in a number of different ways.”

Pope Francis and Cardinal Marx Do a Dance

June 10, 2021

Whatever Cardinal Marx's reasons for submitting his resignation, Pope Francis's rejection of it makes the whole thing to appear thoroughly managed -- orchestrated -- choreographed.

Pope Francis rejects Cardinal Marx’s resignation

June 10, 2021

The Pope insists that that the Church must face the abuse crisis “from our Paschal faith,” saying that “taking up the crisis, personally and communally, is the only fruitful path.”

Farewell to the Church Comfortable

June 10, 2021

A lament from 1967 of all the laity lost in the changes of the mid-sixties, which provides a worrying precedent for the state of the Church today.

Big Trouble in Little Knoxville: Misconduct cases bring systemic, cultural weaknesses into sharp focus

June 07, 2021

There is a good deal more to the stories discussed here in broad strokes – likely more than enough to trigger a Vos estis investigation – and there is also more than enough in each, to trigger the desire of leading Churchmen to keep things tightly under wraps.

Cardinal Marx submits resignation as Archbishop of Munich

June 04, 2021

"With my resignation," Cardinal Marx wrote, "I would like to make it clear that I am willing to personally bear responsibility not only for any mistakes I might have made, but for the Church as an institution which I have helped to shape and mould over the past decades."

Crime & Punishment: Church leaders’ disastrous refusal to abandon secrecy

June 03, 2021

The secrecy of the Church’s judicial processes hurts the innocent, while the opacity of her general practices tends to protect evildoers. Together, the Church’s secrecy and opacity undermine public confidence in her ability to deliver anything like justice.