Romero should have been canonised in San Salvador.
Read MoreMassof testified to a grand jury that he snipped the spines of more than 100 babies after seeing them breathe, move or show other signs of life.
Read MoreThe confusion of history and holiness now seems to be the principal objection to the canonization of popes.
Read MoreThe resignation of Cardinal Wuerl brings to an end decades of service that will be tarnished, at least for time, until a fuller appreciation becomes possible. Yet the resignation might serve another purpose too, that of cleansing the culture of the clergy of one of its most serious vices, the failure to tell the truth.
Read MoreThe following seven notable points might be taken from Cardinal Ouellet’s open letter.
Read MoreThere are many cultural and practical reasons why the prohibition of alcohol is both unwise and impractical, but that it is legal should not obscure that it does massive damage, often to the most vulnerable.
Read MoreCardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri announced that the two bishops “had been invited” by the Holy Father, which they must be to enter the synod, but the clear impression given was that they were chosen not by Rome but by Beijing.
Read MoreThe Church offers beauty not as an ancillary project, but as part of her essential mission.
Read MoreExcess in any area does often compromise health, so I am not surprised that there are bad mental health outcomes from the idolatry of work. Interestingly, though, “workaholic” remains an ambiguous term, sometimes even complimentary, in a way that “alcoholic” is not.
Read MoreBenedict is correct. For Brandmüller and others, the resignation is now major black mark against Benedict, which stains his entire pontificate.
Read MoreThe crown wins. Duty wins. Elizabeth Mountbatten must lose. All the more so her vice-regal representatives.
Read MoreMy general intuition about carbon taxes is that they are the most simple, neat economic instrument to reduce carbon use, if that it is the policy goal. But in a country where the federal government just dropped billions to buy a pipeline it can’t build, the idea that the government is capable of something simple and neat is rather fanciful.
Read MoreDid Pope Francis change the settled teaching? No. He could have said that the use of the death penalty is unjust, or intrinsically evil or immoral. Rather, he taught that it was “inadmissible,” which is a term apparently chosen because it has not been used before and therefore has no fixed meaning.
Read MoreJust as Benedict’s speeches were saturated in history, ancient and contemporary, Gänswein made a bold diagnosis of the current moment.
Read MoreWe are reaping today the harvest of decades when allegations were routinely dismissed to protect the accused’s status. So, if the price today is that allegations see the light of day that perhaps should not, it is recompense for those long years when allegations that should have seen the light of day did not.
Read MoreWhat Singh meant was that his critics are white, hence privileged, while he is not. What else could he have meant? Not that they are powerful
Read MoreBlessed Pino’s feast on the vigil of John Paul’s is a reminder of the message of Veritatis Splendor: namely that baptism makes us capable of following Christ, even to the threshold of martyrdom. Blesseds Pino and Jerzy demonstrate that.
Read MoreSixty-six of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 'calls to action' are either not started or just at the proposed action stage
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