Publication: The Atlantic
The Most Urgent Issue for the U.S. Bishops Is No Longer Abortion
Not so long ago, when U.S. Catholic leaders said something political, they tended to sound like conservatives. American bishops’ most prominent policy statements focused on three issues: same-sex marriage, contraception, ...
The Latin Mass: Catholics Who Have to Worship Somewhere Else
Jessica Harvey used to worship in a church with stained glass and a soaring ceiling. The Catholic parish gave Harvey and her family a sense of community as they settled ...
The ‘Satanic Evil’ of Sexual Abuse
It’s no longer a secret that the Catholic Church suffers from a pervasive, decades-old child-sex-abuse epidemic, perpetrated by “a huge network of men: priests and bishops and cardinals and possibly ...