Publication: National Review
The Worst Crime in American History?
It is highly unlikely that the abuses within the Catholic Church and conspiracies of silence about them are confined to Pennsylvania. “Horseplay,” a term used to denote child rape, is, ...
‘Semblance of Truth’ – The Church’s Standard of Evidence in Sex-Abuse Cases
Most people who allege that they were sexually abused by Catholic priests are telling the truth. The record that has accrued over decades of investigation by the Church itself is ...
The Crisis of the Catholic Church under Pope Francis
In this time of turmoil, the editors of National Review asked five Catholic writers to weigh in. In the most recent issue of National Review (“The Case against Pope Francis,” October 29, ...
The Case Against Pope Francis
He has elevated immoral men in order to change the Catholic faith Just over five years ago, the Argentine cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio came out onto the loggia of St ...
Donald Wuerl, the Church’s Most Oblivious Cleric
The cardinal’s repeated denials of knowledge and responsibility for sexual-abuse cover-ups defy all credibility. The Catholic Church’s nightmare of a summer began with Theodore McCarrick. After news broke in June ...
A Priest Responds to the Catholic Church’s ‘Summer of Shame’
The ongoing scandals are the bitter fruit of a corrupt clerical culture, marked by a widespread failure to accept traditional teaching on sexual morality. A few weeks before I was ...
Leading Churchmen are Denying the Undeniable
A few cardinals have roused themselves to respond to the month-old press disclosures that Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is a pederast, whereas before he was merely well known as a serial ...
There Is No ‘Biological Solution’ to the Catholic Church’s Spiritual Crisis
What we were talking about had a name in Catholic circles. It was called “the biological solution.” Roughly speaking, it meant that priests attached to the reforming visions and the ...
