Columnist: Sheryl Collmer
An Open Letter to U.S. Bishops Calling for Transparency and Accountability
From misuse to abuse, the time of blind giving to a bishop's Annual Appeal is over. The Annual Appeal was launched in our diocese this weekend, as it has been ...
Do Not Be Conformed to the World… OR to Church Leaders
The word of the day for Catholics is “unity.” For the sake of it, entire congregations are ghettoized (TLM), bishops exiled (Strickland), faculties gutted (Sacred Heart), and dioceses fractured (Charlotte) ...
Bishops Burning Bridges
When I was in Catholic graduate studies, our instructors would alert us to incoming papal encyclicals. Excitement would build, delectatory anticipation of what Pope John Paul might say. When it ...
Who Will Safeguard the Sheep?
Like the Psalmist, we wait on the Lord. With steadfastness, we wait. With broken hearts, we wait. The attack on the Traditional Latin Mass in Tyler, Texas this weekend has ...
Be A Pell
The signature of our time is the betrayal of the small by the powerful. Bureau thugs with mammoth government backing surveil Catholic families; protestors fester in prison for years without ...
Twilight in Tyler
When the Cathedral bells swung five minutes before Mass last weekend, they seemed to know. The Ave sung with the Rosary was so mournful, you’d think someone had died. A ...