Ben Anderson writes that Catholics must confront a fundamental question: "While today's spectacle is undeniably worse in degree than the deportations of the last 20 years, is it really any different in kind?"
The professional wrestling match, I mean the House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi, was a series of nasty verbal insults and partisan attacks that did nothing to advance the cause of justice.
Since John Allen's death on Jan. 22, much has been written about his storied career as a Vatican expert. But his work before his move to Rome provides an understanding of why he was a natural choice for that assignment.
Our desire for satisfying alternatives to modernity and a sense of meaning shouldn't turn us against all questioning. Questioning is what brought us to the faith in the first place.
One of the things that defines a culture is what it will not tolerate in its leaders. In U.S. history, our nation has handled scandals differently and also changed what does, and does not, constitute a scandal.
"Living within this limitless love can only bring joy — and inevitably justice. It is what our nation needs today," writes Christine Schenk. Let us embrace Gospel nonviolence, and as the pope suggests, work to change unjust structures.
Catholics believe that the church should engage in moral reformation as a means of preaching the saving grace of Jesus Christ — though, in our day, the tendency on left and right is to overprioritize moral reformation.
The DDF's prefect, notes Daniel Horan, "specifically mentions 'listening to others' and 'opening ourselves to other points of view' while affirming the need to 'pay attention' to those at the peripheries."
Queer experience has a prophetic voice that challenges the church to reckon with its failures, confront its complicity and recover a faithfulness rooted not in the preservation of power but in love, writes Maxwell Kuzma.
