Musings of a Priest Falsely Accused
In his last years, Father Richard John Neuhaus served the Church in the spirit of Saint Matthias. He saw The Judas Crisis for what it was, and named it. The elephant in the sacristy this week is, of course, that stunning May 11 article by Dorothy Rabinowitz in The Wall Street Journal entitled, “The Trials [...]
Editors Note: In a major development in the case of wrongly imprisoned priest, Father Gordon MacRae, the nations largest newspaper has once again taken up this story. Dorothy Rabinowitz, a pulitzer prize winning journalist on The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, published a riveting article on the Father MacRae case on May 11/12, 2013 entitled, [...]
I want to thank Father George David Byers of Holy Souls Hermitage and Ryan MacDonald of A Ram in the Thicket for stepping in for me on These Stone Walls over the last two weeks. I hadn’t gone anywhere. Prisoners do not get vacations, after all. Remember my post, “When the Caged Bird Just Can’t [...]
Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Ryan A. MacDonald of A Ram in the Thicket. A troubling back story in the trial and lawsuits against Father Gordon MacRae has been in open view for two decades, but overlooked by both Church and State. In an article I wrote last September entitled “Judge [...]
This guest essay written by Father George David Byers, of Holy Souls Hermitage, compares four points of Cardinal Bergoglio’s pre-conclave speech with four scenes of betrayal and evangelization of the dark peripheries of Gethsemane: The Judas Crisis & TNCRRG. It is with sweet and comforting joy that we thank His Holiness, Pope Francis, for being [...]
A decade of disasters and a surge in fraud led the Justice Department to form the Disaster Fraud Task Force, but who investigates fraud against Catholic priests? “‘Well, if you want to accuse a priest of something, I can have $50-grand in your account by the end of the year – a $100,000 settlement split [...]
A month into his papacy, a campaign of venom lurks below the surface of media focus on Pope Francis. The lessons of history and psychology make it highly suspect. I resist the occasional depiction of TSW as “a blog about falsely accused priests.” Though it might not seem so to readers, I actually only rarely [...]
“Let the greatest sinners place their trust in My mercy. They have the right before others to trust in the abyss of My mercy . . . To such souls I grant even more graces than they ask. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion, but on [...]
The very presence of Pope Francis makes a mockery of pride, and calls for a most vital Catholic reform: a reform of our hearts to atone for the worst of our vices. “It is a terrible thing that the worst of all vices can smuggle itself into our religious life . . . But this [...]
As the vernal equinox opens a Catholic Spring, many asked what Catholics hope to see in Pope Francis. Let’s instead ask what he hopes to see in us. Habemus Papam! In Pope Francis we have a Holy Father who comes to us at the dawn of Spring. This Pope for the New Evangelization opens a [...]
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