Columnist: John Grondelski
When Will the Covid-Era Bishops Be Held Accountable?
The United States Senate will soon vote whether to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer a Senate committee’s questions. On July 29, the Committee on Homeland ...
Where the Church’s Immigration Rhetoric Fails
Catholic discussions of immigration frequently omit salient facts, most prominently the legal status of the “migrant.” I criticized this curious neglect in Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te. In ...
When “Welcome” Collides With Caesar: Dilexi Te and the Missing Question
The Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te limits its discussion of “migrants” to three paragraphs: 73–75. Paragraph 73 claims that “The experience of migration accompanies the history of the People of God,” citing Abraham, ...
Santo? Not So Subito!
The rush to canonize the recently deceased pope has already begun, but why? Does anybody in the hierarchy still believe that not all dogs and people go to Heaven…at least ...
Why Does God Judge on the Basis of Good and Evil?
As the liturgical year comes to an end, the Church’s readings become decidedly eschatological, focusing on the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. A recent Sunday reading from ...
Is Pope Francis Stacking the Deck for the Synod?
Manipulating the membership roster sets the agenda and determines the recommendations In announcing that non-bishops would be able to vote in this fall’s Synod on Synodality, Rome tried simultaneously to ...
COVID Amnesty for Bishops?
Like zealous COVID politicians, the U.S. bishops have yet even to look at their own record during the “pandemic.” So far, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops hasn’t engaged ...
What We Are at Death Is What We Are Forever
Your time on earth is fixed, and constantly diminishing — take life and death seriously Almost a month has passed since we accepted ashes on our foreheads as a sign ...
Do I Want To See?
“There is none so blind as he who will not see.” In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus asks blind Bartimaeus what he wants, and the latter’s response is unambiguous: “Master, I ...