St. Gallen Mafia’s Long Battle to Change Priesthood will have Decisive Moment at Amazon Synod

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 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 ...