In the beginning of this month, the New York Times published the OpEd of Arthur C. Brooks, Our Culture of Contempt, which highlighted an insightful phenomenon that is very lively in the world today. We do indeed live in a…
Allegory of Faith, Johannes Vermeer, 1670-72 EDITORS NOTE: To date, the published interview of January 7, 2019, titled Living Chastity amid Uncharity: An Interview with a Priest with SSA, has garnered a great deal of attention by readership. Due to…
Archbishop McCarrick, as expected, has been laicized. Unfortunately, most reporters have adopted the infelicitous and somewhat inaccurate verb “to defrock” to describe what happens when the Church, as a penalty, reduces a cleric to the lay state juridically. We may…
Care for Persons, Adherence to the Commandments In the past year, I received numerous e-mails from both critics and friends, especially in regard to my articles on Priests, and the topic of clerical morale and the reform of the…
To assert that celibacy is a discipline praised by both the Lord (Matthew 19:12) and his Apostles (1 Corinthians 7:32-34) is Biblically indisputable. Additionally we have the implication in the Bible that, although some of the Apostles may have been…
I believe it is a safe thing to say, perhaps even self-evident, that for the average Catholic, there are only two Priests on their radar screen: their Parish Priest(s), and the Pope. Even though the Priest says the name of…
Last September, for those who have the luxury of viewing daytime television, made for arresting drama. Typically during the work day, when I am in my office, I have CNBC in the background where I listen to the Financial News. …
Discouragement is a powerful and dangerous thing. Whenever we as Catholics revisit the Liturgical Season of Advent, we recall the powerful words of the Prophets such as Isaiah, “Comfort, comfort my People” (Isaiah 40:1), and the description of the Messiah…
If you asked a Pope, especially one in the Middle Ages and even up till Trent, what was the number one thing they feared, most Popes would have said their greatest fear was a General Council. Many secular princes, when…
The modern world in which we live is replete with references to rights. We claim rights to free speech, to religion, to assembly, and more. These seem to most, who live in liberal democracies, to be part of the basic…