Columnist: Terry Mattingly
Catholics Concerned About The Illegal Immigration Crisis
“We are called to show maximum respect for the dignity of each migrant; this entails accompanying and managing waves of migration as best we can,” said Pope Francis in 2023 ...
Fiducia Supplicans News Flashback: 5-Star Case of the Medium being the Message
Here is a fact from life on the religion beat. Several times a year, a religion-beat reporter is going to be approached by an editor who wants him or her ...
Leading Francis Cardinal Declares Catechism is Wrong on Human Sexuality
It isn’t every day that a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, and a strategic Jesuit ally of the pope, openly rejects centuries of Christian teachings that clash with core ...
Here’s the Litmus Test: Would New Abuse Procedures Nabbed ‘Uncle Ted’ McCarrick?
I have talked to quite a few Catholics in the past year — laypeople and journalists, mainly — and I have read quite a bit of commentary by Catholic clergy ...