Voices

Msgr. John Strynkowski. a retired priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, served in the Congregation for Bishops for six and a half years and at the USCCB for five years.
FaithShort Take
The Rev. Michael J. Himes was a theologian who taught with energy, order, concreteness, wit—and exuberance.
FaithFaith and Reason
The dispossession Christ experienced in his crucifixion is an act of solidarity with the dispossessed of the world.
FaithFaith and Reason
The crises in the Catholic Church demand long-term solutions that are best addressed by gradual discernment leading to broad consensus on the part of the college of bishops.
FaithShort Take
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger urged that dissent from ordinary Magisterium should be disclosed privately to church authority.
The challenge is to rise from having empathy for a few to having empathy for many.
Ideas
Three experts on church history and governance discuss Marco Politi's article on episcopal collaboration.
As a seminarian from 1960 to 1964 and as a priest from 1969 to 1971, I studied theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. One of the lessons I learned from several of the Jesuit professors there was the importance of attending to the historical circumstances surrounding the doctrinal pronouncemen