The Catholic Church and the 2024 Election
The 2024 presidential election was admirably carried out. Around the nation crowds of voters waited patiently and politely, often in [...]
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11, 2024
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11, 2023
The Catholic Hierarchy and the Mideast Conflict
"The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. The hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does [...]
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06, 2023
Restoring Catholic Wisdom, Part 3
Part 1 of this essay argued that the Catholic Church desperately needs to renew its historic teachings, and the Bishops [...]
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11, 2022
Catholic Bishops and Leadership
A recent study revealed that half the diocesan priests in the U.S. are experiencing significant burnout. The researchers found that [...]
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06, 2022
The Catholic Hierarchy’s Embrace of Homosexuality
On the matter of homosexuality or, LBGTI+ as it is fashionably known, the Catholic hierarchy have been at least disingenuous [...]
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04, 2022
The Unfathomable Silence of the Shepherds
The Shepherd metaphor is one of the clearest and most vivid in all of Scripture and not surprisingly was adopted [...]
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01, 2022
What Informed Catholics Expect of Prelates
As I noted in “Overcoming Our Social Chaos” and “A Layman’s Memo to Catholic Prelates” the future of both Catholic [...]
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10, 2021
Pope Francis Pastoring Protestors
The fourth meeting of “Popular Movements “was held in October, 2021 and sponsored by “People Improving Communities through Organizing” (PICO), [...]
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09, 2021
Catholic Bishops’ Response to Biden’s Vaccine Mandate
President Biden has made clear his belief that everyone has a moral obligation to receive the Covid vaccine. The refusal [...]
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05, 2021
Anatomy of a Pastoral Letter
On May 1, 2021 San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone issued a pastoral letter on Catholic teaching concerning abortion. Soon afterward, [...]