In July Fr William Rowe 73 pastor of the St Mary Parish in southeast Illinois received an email from his bishop Edward Braxton telling him he had been removed as pastor and taking away his faculties to say Mass and offer the sacraments Most likely Rowe had seen it coming Braxton had complain

The liturgical creativity inspired by Vatican II brought new intimacy to the Mass.

Declining standards make getting caught the primary offense

I live in what is one of the more wealthy neighborhoods in the world By wealth I don rsquo t necessarily mean the income of the rich persons who live in the all the local apartment houses which block out our sky but the New York institutions clustered here that pull together a steady traffic of th

William Calley is still alive.

As everyone who follows conflicts in the church knows there has been a nasty fight going on between some members of the hierarchy and the majority of professional Catholic theologians mdash those who teach the university courses and write the articles for mainstream or liberal Catholic periodicals

Robert F. Drinan's unscheduled retirement

Imagine a hard-working college history professor John Brayne alone in his study at home late at night He is hunched over his desk pushing his way through a pile of sophomore three-page papers on the Civil War depressed because five out of the 20 failed to hand their papers in and three tr

The first step in teaching moral values to young journalists is to get them to feel pain—not their pain, the pain of others. From that, other virtues—compassion, skepticism, courage and the like—might follow. But virtue is getting harder to teach. Last spring two news stories force