Michael Warren Davis
On November 12, the Most Rev. José Horacio Gómez, Archbishop of Los
Angeles, was elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops. His Excellency graciously granted Crisis his first substantial
interview since his election. Your Excellency, some Catholic
intellectuals today are questioning whether we Catholics can be loyal
citizens of the American republic. They say our […]
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
“Having trivialized the past by equating it with outmoded . . . fashions
and attitudes, people today resent anyone who draws on the past in
serious discussions of contemporary conditions or attempts to use the
past as a standard by which to judge the present… A denial of the past,
superficially progressive and optimistic, proves […]
Daniel Thimons
On November 11, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop
Christophe Pierre, addressed the USCCB General Assembly. In this
address, he stated: “The pastoral thrust of this pontificate must reach
the American people, especially as families continue to demand of
dioceses and parishes the accompaniment envisioned by Amoris Laetitia.”
What exactly is this accompaniment […]
Ben Sixsmith
As the Alt-Right coalition fractured in the wake of its disastrous
protests in Charlottesville, some sort of ideological reformation was an
inevitability. Christian members of the alt-right began to point
fingers at its de facto leader Richard Spencer’s indifferent (if not
outright hostile) attitude towards religion: he repeatedly promoted
paganism in his work on the […]
