20 years after the clergy sex-abuse scandal erupted, reparation and rectification continues...
As we mark the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the toxic avalanche of revelations about decades of clergy sexual abuse of minors in Boston and beyond, two headlines are clear. The first is the unfathomable scope of what had happened and remained hidden prior to that apocalypse: tens of thousands of victims, thousands of clerical molesters...
Here are three underappreciated acclamations of Eucharistic piety...
Let’s consider three rather humble but important moments that are often lost in the minds and hearts of the faithful – the Mystery of Faith, the Amen, and the Agnus Dei. They rise in importance because they are moments that belong especially to the faithful rather than the clergy. First, in the Ordinary Form of the Liturgy...
To tell the Catholic story this week, you need both Munich and Mustafa...
Over the centuries, the Catholic Church often has led the pack in two distinct specialties: Breaking your heart, and then stitching it back together again with a fresh infusion of hope. This past week brought classic examples of both. Out of Munich, we got a report from a law firm commissioned by the archdiocese documenting almost 500 cases of clerical sexual abuse stretching over 74 years...
On the wonder of the Word of God...
What is Christian joy, and how can it be yours?
A subtle theme threads throughout this Sunday’s readings: the theme of joy. When the Jews return to Jerusalem from the Babylonian Exile their leaders read the Old Covenant to them. And the crowd weeps as the scrolls are read because they realize they have not been keeping God’s laws. But Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest...
As Russian Troop Buildup Continues, Pope Sets Jan. 26 as Day of Prayer for Peace in Ukraine...
The Real Presence and the presence of reality...
In the wee hours when the mind is awake and pondering I kept thinking of all the artificiality, lying, deception, fakery and illusion in our world. The modern world seems increasingly to be a flimsy stage set, a simulacrum of reality, a plastic Disneyworld of fairy tale fakery and lies. We are alienated from reality not by suffering so much as by the sweetness of our artificial affluence...
March for Life 2022: ‘A Great Witness to the Sanctity of Human Life’...
This year’s March for Life, the 49th, will be different...
The annual March for Life in Washington began in 1974 — and it’s hard to think of a more admirable or consistent public witness to the dignity of the human person being given for so many years by so many people of all races, religions, and social classes. The March has taken place in fair weather and foul. Senior public officials have addressed it; others have assiduously (or contemptuously) ignored it...
Activist Group Projects Pro-Choice Messages on Washington Basilica on Eve of March for Life...
Answering the call: When a fire truck becomes a ‘friar truck’...
Sound the alarm, and make way for the “Friar Truck” and its first official call: January’s “Bible Marathon” in St. Martinville, Louisiana. After this debut, it will continue carrying on its official duty — proclaiming the word of God from its eye-catching, antique mobile pulpit. No one will be able to miss the message as the Friar Truck makes its rounds...
My dad, Bruce Thomas Clark, and the communion of saints...
Here’s a Q&A to help make sense of what’s been alleged about Benedict XVI and Munich...
America’s favorite hot sauces, ranked and mapped for all 50 states...
Pope’s Wednesday Audience: ‘God Is Not Afraid of Our Sins’...
Episcopal beats, a papal “error,” and praying for peace...
This morning, the daily bollettino of Holy See Press Office included some news for New York, with the announcement that Pope Francis has appointed two new auxiliary bishops for the archdiocese, both native sons of the city. Both are priests currently serving as pastors in the archdiocese. Msgr. John Bonnici is a NAC graduate with a doctorate from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family...
The conversion of St. Paul...
If anybody wonders how much Christianity has shaped our culture, just consider the phrase about “being knocked off your high horse.” It means that somebody who was acting haughtily, among the high and mighty, found himself dethroned from that position. One source suggests that the phrase dates, at least in English, from the late 14th century...
Pope Francis was right about pets and kids...
Benedict XVI Confirms He Attended Disputed 1980 Meeting in Munich...
God has an announcement to make: The days of exile are over!...
The days of waiting are done. He is here, among us, ready to do the things he promised he would do — mighty deeds he will do for us and through us. Sunday’s Gospel reading is a supreme moment in human history, and the Church gives us a huge hint as to how we should receive it. Jesus, the incarnate God, bursts onto the world stage in a number of dramatic entrances...
How to literally read Scripture literally...
One of the most common questions about biblical interpretation is how much of the Bible ought to be taken “literally.” That’s a tricky question to answer, because the word literal actually has two distinct (but related) meanings. When the Catechism of the Catholic Church talks about the literal sense of Scripture, it’s referring to “the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and discovered by exegesis...
Sex, marriage and babies are now topics too hot for preachers to handle?
Hey religion-beat reporters (and even pros who cover politics): Want to find some really interesting stories? Ask this question: What are the subjects that clergy are afraid to address in the pulpit? For example, lots of people interpreted the silence of many super-preachers on the ethics and affairs of Donald Trump as evidence of support for him...
“Catholics” for choice, marchers for life, and how to sabotage a synod...
Seven things to know about March for Life speaker Father Mike Schmitz...
Vigil Mass for Life: ‘Every Human Being, at Every Stage of Life, Should Be Treated With Respect’...
Vatican Makes It Official: St. Irenaeus to Be Declared a Doctor of the Church ...
How Stalin’s Russia-Ukraine ‘Sobor’ applies to China’s ‘Sinicization’...
The Winter Olympics in China are about to open, a welcome propaganda exercise for an authoritarian regime. Eight years ago at Sochi 2014, Vladimir Putin took a vainglorious turn on the world stage, promising a return to imperial glory for the hungry Russian bear. As soon as the Olympic torch was extinguished, Putin invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea...
Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto...
I recently resigned from my position as full tenured professor at the University of Toronto. I am now professor emeritus, and before I turned sixty. Emeritus is generally a designation reserved for superannuated faculty, albeit those who had served their term with some distinction. I had envisioned teaching and researching at the U of T...
Will Catholic universities survive the upheaval in higher education? The next 10 years will tell...
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