Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.
On September 21, the well-known German magazine, Der Spiegel, featured a
long article on the whole career of Pope Francis under the title “The
Greatest Crisis in the History of the Church.” The immediate issues
brought up concerned the pope’s handling of abuse issues while he was
still in Argentina. Most people are by now […]
James Soriano
In the Inferno, Dante Alighieri, a critic in his day of Church
leadership, famously put the souls of at least three popes in hell, as
well as countless other clerics who go nameless, their faces blackened
beyond recognition. However, one cleric he does meet along the way is
Ruggieri degli Ubaldini (d. 1295), the archbishop […]
Jeffrey Tranzillo
There has been much commentary about Pope Francis’s self-imposed
“silence” regarding Archbishop Carlo Viganò’s allegation that Francis
had lifted Pope Benedict’s sanctions against sexual predator Theodore
McCarrick, and then made the ex-cardinal a trusted—and very
influential—advisor. It might be, however, that Francis did, in fact,
give a resounding—and contemptuous—reply to the allegation, just three
days […]
Regis Nicoll
If there is any positive outcome from the Ford-Kavanaugh hearing
debacle, it is this: young people are now forewarned that their youth
and immaturity will no longer be tolerated or excused—any thing they say
or do as a minor, even if isolated and out of temper with their moral
character, can be used against them […]
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