An Ecumenical Ministry in the Parish of St Patrick's Catholic Church In San Diego USA

米国サンディエゴの聖パトリックカトリック教会教区におけるエキュメニカル宣教

Monday, August 19, 2019

God Wants a Repentant Church, Not a Relevant Church


Uncle Tommy — Happy Martyr, and the Priest We Need

Kevin Wells
 

It’s coming up on 20 years since my uncle, Msgr. Thomas Wells, was murdered in his Maryland rectory during a somber late summer night. Deputy state attorney Kay Winfree called the scene spine-chilling; as gruesome as anything she’d ever encountered. His body was marked by deep stab wounds around his head and neck, accompanied by […]

God Wants a Repentant Church, Not a Relevant Church

Jonathan B. Coe
 

On a regular basis the faithful Catholic laity find themselves disconcerted and even outraged when priests and prelates display an inverted moral calculus. For example, as William Kilpatrick writes in a recent essay in this magazine, the Vatican has become a kind of sanctuary city for credibly accused homosexual predators while Pope Francis laments the […]

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