The Pope owns this...
Msgr. Charles Pope
The annual Fall Meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which took place in Baltimore earlier this week, was a disappointment on many levels. Yet there were also moments of light and strength coming from a good number of bishops. They spoke with clarity, acknowledging the seriousness of the crisis both in terms of the need to bring some semblance of justice to the victims and of the faltering credibility of the Church...

Can driving the inside lane on the highway shorten your trip?

Before envelopes were invented, people protected messages with letterlocking...

The Final Judgment: Readings for the 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time...
John Bergsma
“Tempus fugit,” the Romans used to say. “Time flies.” It’s hard to believe that we are already at the second-to-last Sunday of the liturgical year. Where has the year gone? How can it be so close to the end already? Yet these feelings are very appropriate for Mass we will celebrate this Sunday, whose readings encourage us to count time carefully...

After Baltimore, here’s where things stand on the sexual abuse crisis...
John Allen
Now that the dust has settled on the U.S. bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore - which was keenly anticipated in the run-up, and which turned out to be massively anti-climactic in the aftermath - it’s time to take preliminary stock of where things stand in the bishops’ efforts to respond to the clerical sexual abuse crisis. The agenda for the meeting was waylaid late afternoon on Sunday...

Vatican, U.S. bishops face class-action lawsuit from victims of clergy sex abuse...

Denver’s Archbishop Aquila calls out Regis University for urging faculty to attend drag show, promote transgender ideology...

A hopeful sign amid the U.S. bishops’ failed Fall meeting...
Fr. Raymond de Souza
The most dramatic meeting of the U.S. bishops since 2002 ended in failure. Except that it did not entirely fail. It may in fact have signaled a critical turning point on the road to reform. The failure was evident. For months the leadership of the U.S. bishops have declared that the November plenary assembly was the time when concrete actions regarding accountability for bishops would be taken...

Italian court rules Archbishop Viganò must repay $2 million to his brother...

“What are people to make of our silence?” Bishops discuss McCarrick in Baltimore...

To the U.S. bishops: A (friendly) call to repentance and reform...
Janet Smith
Not only the US bishops but a significant portion of lay Catholics are discussing and pondering – almost obsessively — what can be done to address the sexual abuse crisis. A vast array of “solutions” has been proposed for dealing with who knew what, when, and who did what in respect to Archbishop McCarrick and how accusations of abuse of minors against bishops should be handled...

A foolish dreamer awakens in the Church at last...
Richard Evans
Many of you reading this are familiar with much of my journey and story. If you are, you likely know that I have had more than my share of struggles in my pursuit of Catholicism at her core. That core is chasing holiness. To quote the Baltimore Catechism, which I was raised on, in question 6 of the very 1st lesson: “Why did God make you...

Raffaella Stroik, 23-year-old daughter of architect Duncan Stroik, found dead in rural Missouri lake; no foul play suspected ...

A century after the armistice...
George Weigel
I’m just old enough to remember when my elders still called November 11 “Armistice Day”—the armistice in question being that which stopped the shooting in the Great War. As a military matter, World War I may have ended a century ago, on November 11, 1918, allowing my Grandfather Weigel and millions of other doughboys to be demobilized...

Vatican shocks U.S. bishops, while some journalists keep tight focus on child abuse — alone...

Motivation remains unclear for Vatican request that U.S. bishops delay action...

Pray and fast for the abuse crisis, no matter how mad you are...

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