In All Things

Whom should President Obama nominate to replace Justice John Paul Stevens The question is today Washington rsquo s favorite parlor game Last year I somewhat mischievously suggested Obama nominate Al Gore to the Court and lo and behold tonight on MSNBC rsquo s The Ed Show my suggestion was t

The second part of Jason Berry s gruesomely compelling expose of the sordid life of Maciel Degollado pictured founder of the Legionaries of Christ has been published by NCR Part 1 is here It contains more evidence of how Maciel suborned his opponents through lavish funds What is sad is how c

The misinterpretation and misreporting of the 1985 Ratzinger letter in the Kiesle case — my points in this BBC TV interview over the weekend are similar to those in MSW s excellent analysis — indicate not just poor quality coverage but something altogether nastier It was the great theorist Ren ea

The whole world now knows about Father Stephen Kiesle of Oakland the priest who tied up young boys and molested them sexually and whose request to be defrocked came before then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger The press is swarming with assertions that as the Washington Post headlined its story Future

One factor you don t see listed by the National Review Board in their 2002 report to the U S bishops on the causes of clergy abuse is celibacy Because celibacy does not cause pedophilia But that hasn t stopped otherwise thoughtful pundits and commentators and among them even some Catholics from

Like many other Catholic publications nbsp America nbsp has nbsp urged the church to step forward with all it knows as quickly as possible if for no other reason than to put an end to this brutal media dissection Surely someone was aware during the past weeks of protests to the contrary that the

When I was a kid I really really wanted an Astronaut Barbie She seemed fully capable of taking on the final frontier despite the impracticality of her shiny pink-and-silver space suit and her not-quite-airtight helmet These days with NASA s manned space program coming to an end the plastic ico

Buried in a church news round-up in the Italian newspaper La Stampa lurks a highly significant story the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith CDF is working on a global policy to deal with clerical sex abuse which effectively extends worldwide the norms currently existing in the US and the

A frank commentary by Frederico Lombardi S J the Vatican press officer on sexual abuse The debate concerning sexual abuse and not only that committed by the clergy continues with news items and comments of various kinds How can we sail through these stormy waters while maintaining a secure co

This is a fine article by Timothy Radcliffe O P the former master general nbsp of the Dominicans on why one remains Catholic in difficult terrible times nbsp Why stay I must lay my cards on the table even if the Church were obviously worse than other Churches I still would not go I am not