Complicit Clergy

Old Latin Mass Finds New American Audience, Despite Pope’s Disapproval

November 22, 2022 from New York Times by Ruth Graham

Eric Agustin’s eight children used to call the first day of the week “Party Sunday.” The family would wake up, attend a short morning Mass at a Catholic parish near their house, then head home for lunch and an afternoon of relaxing and watching football. But this summer, the family made a “big switch,” one … Read more

Theodore McCarrick Still Won’t Confess

September 4, 2019 from Slate by Ruth Graham

Banished in the dead of night to a mistrustful Kansas town after sexual abuse allegations, the defrocked archbishop of D.C. speaks publicly for the first time since his fall from grace. On a cloudy Sunday morning in August, Father John Schmeidler delivered a brisk homily at St. Fidelis Catholic Church on the virtue of trusting … Read more