The latest survey, conducted in January, found that 44 percent of white Catholics approve of President Trump’s job performance.
Michael J. O’Loughlin
Michael J. O’Loughlin is national correspondent at America and author of Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and the Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.
Posted inFaith, Features
Meet the Vatican team running for the greater glory of God (and maybe the Olympics)
A new Vatican team supports fitness and the value of being Christian. And they just might make it to the Olympics someday.
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
After Vatican abuse summit, survivors express disappointment and call for concrete reforms
Survivors of abuse and their advocacy organizations had expressed frustration with the lack of specific recommendations at the conclusion of the Vatican summit.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Despite external pressure, little talk of homosexuality at Vatican abuse summit
“To generalize, to look at a whole category of people is never legitimate,” said Archbishop Charles Scicluna, one of the Vatican’s point man in the fight against sex abuse. Homosexuality and heterosexuality are “human conditions,” he said, adding, “they are not something that predisposes to sin.”
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Nigerian sister asks bishops: Why did the church allow atrocities of sex abuse to remain secret?
Acknowledging that the church is currently “in a state of crisis and shame,” Sister Veronica Openibo urged church leaders to “acknowledge that our mediocrity, hypocrisy and complacency have brought us to this disgraceful and scandalous place we find ourselves as a church.”
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Gracias: sex abuse crisis is a global problem with ‘no easy solution’
“No bishop may say to himself, ‘The problem of abuse in the church does not concern me because things are different in my part of the world,’” the archbishop of Bombay told bishops gathered in Rome.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Cardinal Tagle at abuse summit: How do we balance justice and forgiveness?
Cardinal Tagle urged church leaders not to shy away from acknowledging the pain of victims.
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A new exposé on homosexuality in the Vatican is coming out next week. What can we expect?
The central thesis of the 576-page book is that “the more a prelate is homophobic, the more likely it is that he is himself gay.”
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Explainer: Former Cardinal McCarrick faces laicization. What does that mean?
A sentence of laicization—sometimes referred to colloquially as defrocking—would complete a stunning fall from grace for the former cardinal.
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Church leaders and victim advocates temper expectations for Vatican’s abuse summit
Pope Francis has downplayed expectations about the Feb. 21-24 summit at the Vatican on the sexual abuse crisis, but many hope it is a step toward a system with more accountability.