Cyprus’ Orthodox Christians will soon head to the polls to vote for a new archbishop—dispelling the secrecy that normally characterizes the selection of hierarchs.
This month, the U.S. bishops met to elect new leadership. The gathering came at a time when the Church may be on its way to becoming a post-episcopal institution.
John McGreevy’s book is a gripping history of the modern Catholic Church, an institution at once a stolid purveyor of tradition and an agent of revolutionary change.
A synodal report from the American bishops reflects fears that the Church has become too “judgmental.” But a Church that does not judge cannot bear moral witness.
In 2002, the recently deceased Archbishop Rembert Weakland resigned amid a sex scandal. The end of his ecclesiastical career was the start of a spiritual journey.
As bizarre as Viganò’s claims are, we cannot ignore that a Catholic archbishop actively assisted Steve Bannon in spreading the Big Lie leading up to January 6.
The controversy at Nativity School shows how the Church has allied itself with discrimination, undermining its credibility and failing to live up to its values.
If the Eucharist is an encounter with the living person of Jesus Christ, then disaffiliation from the Eucharistic liturgy is defection from Jesus Christ himself.
The challenges of Eucharistic coherence and abortion require distinct responses from American bishops. Trying to address them together will only harm them both.
Some conservative Catholics and U.S. bishops are eager to exploit any controversy over Biden’s Catholicism, but in doing so they reveal their hypocrisy.
Instead of behaving ecclesially, the USCCB has been behaving politically, ignoring fraternal relationships between bishops and fighting against the pope.
Bishop John England leaves behind a complicated legacy: a useful method of thinking beyond clericalism, and a warning about the application of natural law.
The USCCB’s opposition to the pro-LGBTQ Supreme Court ruling shows a disregard for human dignity and promotes a counterfeit version of religious liberty.
For all the supposed fragility of the Church’s institutional system, its persistence is undiminished. It remains, and likely will remain, highly clerical.
Defending racist and violent policing as the result of individual “bad apples” doesn’t just obscure larger systemic problems. It hinders the pursuit of justice.
