The Catholic Church is again mired in scandal and suspicion. Our best hope is the entrustment of our entangled webs of crisis and deceit to Mary, Undoer of Knots.
With almost no … Read More
Cast as President Donald Trump against an evil plot of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, something scarier than a theatrical debut lurked backstage: the Trumpian … Read More
A claim that the former Archbishop of Washington, DC sexually assaulted a New York 16-year-old in 1971 is weighed against a broader spectrum of homosexual behaviors.
Now that … Read More
Less than two weeks before Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina died, he sent a letter on Humanae Vitae to Blessed Pope Paul VI who is himself due to be canonized 14 … Read More
Senator Susan Collins (R. Maine) echoes an ugly history when she says she will only support a Supreme Court nominee who upholds “established laws” like Roe v. Wade.
The readers … Read More
The celestial debut of Sirius the Dog Star in Canis Major heralds the Dog Days of summer, The Great British Baking Show, and some long-awaited captive culinary arts.
“The raging … Read More
A Mass Reading from Second Corinthians on the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time conveys Saint Paul’s thorny lesson about freedom and power. Our world has it all wrong.
It is not by … Read More
Men facing death in this prison at one time died alone. Darryll Bifano is a prisoner and hospice volunteer who helped change that. In the process, he changed himself.
Some weeks … Read More
The story of sex abuse and the Catholic priesthood has itself been abused to malign the Church. A canon lawyer describes the resulting erosion of the rights of priests.
by … Read More
Behind the high walls and razor wire of American prisons, the most visible and deeply felt deprivation and longing is not just for freedom, but also for fatherhood.
“Nikolai … Read More
The Catholic social justice blog These Stone Walls marks nine years of writing from the outer rim. This “truly compelling venue on the Internet” began at a toilet.
For the first … Read More
Marking 36 years as a priest, now far from paradise, Father Gordon MacRae writes an inconvenient truth about Holy Orders in Exile: Priesthood is not “Going my Way.”
“Kill the … Read More
Stone Walls do not a Prison make,
Nor Iron bars a Cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an Hermitage.
If I have freedom in my Love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such Liberty.
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