R. Jared Staudt
A crisis that strikes so centrally at the integrity of the Church
necessitates a response from each one us. There must be general reform
in the Church, but I’d like to explore how each one of us can respond to
the Church’s crisis with a commitment to stronger faith and personal
reform. In focusing on […]
John P. McCarthy
The closer we get to the visit by Pope Francis to Ireland and
specifically to the World Meeting of Families in Dublin the greater
seems the criticism, then distrust, and outright hostility to the Church
and even to the pope. No doubt, much of it is the accumulated effect of
the dramatic loss of Faith […]
Mitchell Kalpakgian
In Dickens’ novels the problems of suffering in the form of poverty,
tragedy, and injustice receive their greatest relief from simple,
humble, lowly characters with kind, compassionate, and charitable
hearts—not from wealthy benefactors, social agencies, or doles from
government welfare. Portraying the hardheartedness of the powerful, the
avaricious, and the callous in the cold and […]
Regis Nicoll
On cue my recent article, “The Mercy of Intolerance,” prompted some, um,
spirited responses outside the general Crisis readership. One
gentleman, “Paul,” who was particularly exercised by the piece shot me
an email (excerpt below) in hopes of educating me. My response follows.
Regis, you and I live in two different worlds. In my world tolerance […]
Fr. John A. Perricone
At the beginning of time a snake slithered into a Garden called Eden. He
entered quietly and quite unobtrusively, as is his wont. And he wreaked
havoc on the human race. That same serpent slithered into the
supernatural Garden of Eden, which is the Holy Catholic Church, in the
waning years of the nineteenth century. […]
Stephen J. Heaney
“This attitude of resignation with regard to truth lies at the heart of
the crisis in the West, the crisis of Europe.” ∼ Pope Benedict XVI “You
can’t run the Church on Hail Marys.” ∼ former Vatican Bank president
Archbishop Paul Marcinkus As jarring revelations about the contemporary
episcopacy continue to come to light, it […]
K. V. Turley
At a time when there are persistent rumors emanating from the Vatican of
a “revision” of Humanae Vitae, there comes a film showing why fifty
years on the 1968 encyclical and what it teaches needs greater
proclamation not revision. Unprotected: A Pope, the Pill, and the Perils
of Sexual Chaos is a new film produced […]
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