It’s “Bishop’s Lenten Appeal” time in parishes across the country, which means your Sunday Mass homily gets hijacked by the chancery in order to shake down Catholics for money. There’s no doubt that ordinary Catholics are fed up with the corrupt hierarchy of bishops. Donations to their annual “Lenten appeals” are plummeting. People no longer trust the … Read more
St. Peter’s Catholic Church on Capitol Hill is one of the most elite parish locations in the United States. Thanks to it being the official local parish of the House of Representatives, one regularly expects to share kneelers and holy water fonts with congressmen, prominent members of the media, and the assorted “that guy” provincial … Read more
The past year has seen unprecedented government investigation of the Catholic Church in the United States. Kicked off by the seminarian sex abuse cover-up scandal of former-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick last summer, the ecclesiastical atmosphere has since taken on a Watergate-like avalanche quality. The Pennsylvania attorney general (and dozens of state attorneys general since then), the … Read more