Introduction   My blog’s Facebook  page  suddenly got a lot more active. I’m fielding a lot more comments and messages in the past week than...

While I am not complacent with the scandals afflicting the Church, neither do I think this is the worst crisis in the history of the Church....

No doubt by now you’ve heard many accounts about the 2018 abuse scandal. I want to discuss a certain aspect of that story that went unreport...

( Preliminary note : I am not writing about the very real pain of abuse survivors and their families. I am writing about combox warriors who...

Introduction  After the disgust at the news of wrongdoing (I naively assumed the bishops had cleaned up their mess in 2002), the next thing ...

‘I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo.  ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is ...

The Pharisee and the Publican . James Tissot (1894) This will probably be a controversial article, but I think it needs to be said, lest we ...