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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.

The Sense (and Nonsense) of Church Reform: Vos estis turns two

June 01, 2021

The whole ecclesiastical leadership culture has to change: not in a sentimental, “caring about the victims” way, either. Caring about the victims is a bare minimum, a baseline requirement, the measure of which is in its effects. That means the culture needs to change in practical, nuts-and-bolts ways.

Pope Francis orders investigation of Cologne Archdiocese

May 28, 2021

“The Holy See's envoys will gain an overall picture of the Archdiocese’s complex pastoral situation and at the same time examine any errors committed by Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, as well as by the Archbishop of Hamburg, Archbishop Stefan Hesse, and the auxiliaries (of Cologne), Bishops Dominikus Schwaderlapp and Ansgar Puff, regarding cases of sexual abuse.”

Pope names Archbishop Arthur Roche to Head Liturgy Congregation

May 27, 2021

Pope Francis has renewed the leadership of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (CDW), promoting the dicastery’s secretary, Archbishop Arthur Roche, to Prefect of the Vatican’s liturgy department. The English prelate was appointed coadjutor Bishop of Leeds, England, in 2002 by Pope John Paul II. He succeeded Bishop David Konstant

If Only Americans Thought Like Catholics

May 27, 2021

A man embraces his wife and daughter after crossing the Rio Grande near the border between Mexico and the United States in Del Rio, Texas. (Sergio Flores/AFP via Getty Images) While people debate whether the United States has been a “Christian nation,” no one has ever claimed it has been a Catholic one. If

Pope Francis greets Auschwitz survivor at General Audience

May 26, 2021

Lidia Maksymowicz was only two-years-old when she was deported to the infamous Nazi death camp of Auchwitz-Birkenau. For three years she was subjected to medical experiments at the hands of Josef Mengele. “All the children knew who Mengele was and were terrified of him,” she says telling her story in the decades following the end of the war.

Synodality can work … if leadership lets it

May 26, 2021

Despite its novelty – 50 years is nothing in Church time – the Synod, too, can fall into the same “functionalism” against which Pope Francis warned the Dicastery for Communication earlier this week.

Pope launches seven-year journey to total sustainability

May 25, 2021

The Laudato Sí Action Platform “is a journey to realise the integral ecological vision of Laudato Sí… a journey towards total sustainability in the spirit of the integral ecology,” says Salesian Father Josh Kureethadam of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.