Cleric: Karl Lehmann

St. Gallen Mafia’s Long Battle to Change Priesthood will have Decisive Moment at Amazon Synod
Forty-four years before he successfully led the crusade to elect Pope Francis, then-Fr. Cormac Murphy-O’Connor—a future member of the St. Gallen mafia—attended a 1969 synod under Pope Paul VI. Listening to all ...

The Catholic Church Is Breaking Apart. Here’s Why.
The pontificate of Francis can, perhaps, best be understood as a political project. His election at the conclave in 2013 was—unbeknownst to the world at the time—the result of a ...