Publication: The American Conservative
Viganò Corroboration #5: When Francis Rebuked Vigano
From the Vigano testimony, this account of an event on June 21, 2013: The next day the audience with Pope Francis took place. After his address, which was partly read and ...
The Catastrophic Cost Of Secrets and Lies
An excerpt.... Pope Francis could put this entire thing to rest if he would sit for an interview with a respected journalist, and answer the questions: Did you know about ...
Viganò: I Did Not Quash The Nienstedt Investigation
I was one of the people who believed that Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò intervened to quash the independent investigation of Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt’s alleged homosexual double life. Now Vigano has ...
A Time Of Donkeys
I’m going to Italy early next month to give a series of talks about The Benedict Option, which has been published in Italian. This weekend, I was working on my speech, ...
Pope To US Church: You’re On Your Own
Well, there you have it: There are no new papal directives coming up on the subject of abuse and Francis is not preparing any new documents directed at the bishops ...
Uncle Ted’s Family Tradition
Handsy Archbishop (formerly Cardinal) Ted McCarrick’s name did not come up in the Pennsylvania grand jury report, but his shadow looms large over the burgeoning scandal engulfing the US bishops ...
The Church’s Coming Catastrophe
I had not intended to post another Catholic scandal item today, but then I saw the above tweet by J.D. Flynn, and, given Flynn’s reputation and his position as editor-in-chief ...
Incompetent or Complicit? It Takes Former Seminarians’ Facebook Posts to get Cardinal O’Malley to Take Action in his Own Backyard
Cardinal Seán O'Malley is president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. He is also Archbishop of Boston. How bad is it when the guy in-charge of clerical ...
The Death Of Richard Sipe
This is almost cinematic: A.W. Richard Sipe, one of the foremost figures in the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal drama, died Wednesday night at his California home. He was 85. In ...
The Meaning Of The Benedict Option
A rock-solid Catholic priest who has spent decades in the trenches for orthodox Christianity, but who has grown very weary of the spinelessness of the episcopacy, writes in about his ...
When Two Gay Catholic Tribes Go To (Cold) War
N., an exceptionally well-informed lay Catholic, tells me that there are two basic tribes of gay bishops and priests. The first tribe is the Progressives — some sexually active, others ...
This Is What Priests Have Come To Know
Here is an excerpt from the “pastoral reflection” of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington and immediate successor of Cardinal — sorry, now just “Archbishop” — Theodore McCarrick. It is the ...
Msgr Kalin & #MeToo Conservatives
We Catholics ought to thank God that the abuse committed by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick against young men under his authority is finally coming to light. As a former priest, ...
The Cost of Clericalism
The bishops cannot fix the problem because the bishops, and the system that produces them, are at the heart of the problem. You might have missed this update to a blog ...
Uncle Ted’s ‘Special Boy’
When I speak to James by phone, I ask him what he would have to say to the people – bishops, priests, and laymen – who know who Theodore McCarrick ...
Cardinal McCarrick’s Network
One obvious next step in the Cardinal McCarrick story is uncovering more victims of his abuse. We now know of two. I would bet that there will surely be more ...
Cardinal McCarrick: Everybody Knew
Remember how, after Harvey Weinstein was busted as a serial sexual abuser, it emerged that a whole lot of people knew this about Weinstein, but never said anything about it? ...
