Columnist: Editors
Pope Leo Dead Wrong in Telling America to Embrace Illegal Immigration
In his message on the 250th anniversary of America’s independence, Pope Leo XIV, who is very free with his advice, urged the United States “to receive immigrants with compassion and ...
One Year Without Francis: A Review of a Pontificate That Fractured the Church
On April 21, 2025, Easter Monday, Jorge Mario Bergoglio died in Santa Marta. A year has passed and the mourning is no longer news: what remains is the balance. Bergoglio ...
The Ostermann Fiasco Is Over. Notre Dame’s Catholic Identity Crisis Is Not
Abortion-rights advocate Susan Ostermann’s decision to withdraw from her appointment as the new head of the University of Notre Dame’s Asian studies institute is welcome news, so far as it ...
Why is Seton Hall Hiding Its Sex Abuse Report?
Perhaps the worst scandal across the globe over the last 20 years is the epidemic of child rape in the Catholic Church – a sin compounded by its repeated efforts ...
The Telling Outcome of the Latest Round of Red-Hat Roulette
The Holy Father has done it again: 21 new prelates of his liking to be made cardinals on 8 December. By this stage of the Francis papacy the list comes ...
It’s Time to Remove Father Rupnik’s Art
While it is far short of the sort of justice that this case demands, we have reached beyond the point in the Father Marko Rupnik scandal when concrete steps must ...
US Apostolic Nuncio Claims Synod Is All About Evangelization
Downplaying concerns about the upcoming Synod, the apostolic nuncio to the US described the Synod as a “moment when a number of bishops representing the bishops of the world, the ...
Stopping the ‘Spirit of the Synod’ Before it Starts
Those attempting to exploit the Synod on Synodality are beginning to use a tactic employed by post-Vatican II agitators; their methods should be called out and dismissed before they get ...
Is the Synod Building a Big Tent — or a House on Sand?
The Synod on Synodality has released a “working document” for the continental stage of the multiyear Church process. For the theme of the document, a synthesis of the texts produced ...
RORATE CÆLI: Bishops Should Immediately Dispense Priests and Faithful from the Horrors of Traditionis Custodes
We at Rorate Caeli are gratified and edified by the generous paternal and pastoral approach that many bishops, particularly those in the Anglo-French sphere, have taken as a response to ...
The Cardinal, The Vatican Scandal And The Lawyer Who Posed In Skimpy Swimsuit
The Vatican scandal over a gone-wrong London property investment has proved difficult for one of the Vatican’s senior Cardinals, but in a bizarre twist it has also lead to a ...
Eradicating the McCarrick Virus
Two years after the former cardinal’s sexual predilections were revealed, the Vatican still hasn’t released its report. It has now been two years since Pope Francis accepted Theodore McCarrick’s resignation ...
The Catholic Church Yet Again Fails to Account for its Victims
A FEATURE of the Catholic Church’s rippling sexual abuse scandal is that past predations and coverups are often revealed by journalists, government authorities or victims and their advocates, but rarely ...
NCR EDITORS: More Answers Are Urgently Needed in the Ongoing McCarrick Scandal
It has now been a year since the devastating scandal surrounding the sexual misconduct by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick exploded into public view, disastrously undermining the credibility of the Catholic ...
St. Louis Victims Have Waited Long Enough For Findings On Clergy Sexual Abuse
For months now, the St. Louis Archdiocese has been saying it intends to follow the lead of its counterparts around the nation and publicly identify its clergy who have been ...
Buffalo Police Aided and Abetted Molestation by Priests
It was a conspiracy and someone should pay. Attorney General Letitia James is the one to make sure it happens. As disturbing as it is to know that Buffalo police ...
Two Steps Forward and One Step Back Won’t Cleanse the Catholic Church
THE ESSENTIAL problem that gave rise to decades of clergy sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church was that bishops, whose authority over their domains is all but absolute, were ...
The Vatican Finally Needs to Offer More than Thoughts and Prayers on Sexual Abuse
IN A recent letter to U.S. bishops, Pope Francis called for a “change of mindset” to regain credibility forfeited by the Catholic Church after nearly two decades of temporizing, equivocation ...
Pro-Infanticide Catholics Need the Church’s Strongest Medicinal Penalties
On Jan. 22, a ghoulish celebration was held in different parts of New York state. Cheers and applause accompanied New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s signing of the so-called Reproductive Health ...
Confronting Troubling Questions Ahead of February Bishops’ Meeting
Time is short for concrete actions and authentic reforms. We cannot afford another missed opportunity. The Holy See announced in September that Pope Francis would focus all of the energies ...
The Catholic Church Proves Incapable of Exorcising Clergy Sex Abuse — Again
IT IS EVIDENT that the Catholic Church is incapable on its own of exorcising the scourge of clergy sex abuse. The scandal raged unchecked for decades and, even after it ...
