Columnist: David Tracy
Tepidity, Synodality, and Abuse Deniers
Padre Pio called out tepid Catholics. He claimed that purgatory was filled with souls who were neither rebellious nor filled with zeal. The saint bemoaned those souls who receive the ...
Trinity or Triumvirate?
The hierarchy of the Catholic Church exhibits symptoms of a general schizophrenia. Even a staunch defender of Catholic clericalism and the status quo must admit that many bishops and their ...
In Praise of the Incorrigible
I grew up in what history would reveal as the hotbed of clerical sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Denver. What’s now known as the Highlands, in my youth, was ...
The Twelve Days of Synodal Christmas
This past year has been very revealing to Catholics, many of whom question, “Where on Earth is the Holy Spirit?” There is no better time for us to reflect upon ...