We at Our Sunday Visitor are going to miss Bob Lockwood. He was one of the good ones — real, a truth-teller and a man of the Church, through and through. Lockwood’s first job after attending Fairfield University in New York was
With all that is transpiring within the Church right now, Catholic Christians may find it challenging to stay focused on our primary task — that of missionary discipleship, working to bring others to Christ. But what better time than the penitential season
Other than the extreme damage done to victims of clergy abuse and their families, perhaps the biggest fallout from the devastating and seemingly interminable clergy abuse crisis has been a severing of trust between lay Catholics and Church leadership. This is not
When the Vatican announced on Feb. 16 that Theodore McCarrick, the disgraced former cardinal-archbishop of Washington, D.C., had been dismissed from the clerical state, the only surprise was that it took so long. (See story by Brian Fraga here) The first public
A recent document released by the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is just the latest reminder — as if another were needed — of the stark divisions that currently exist within the Church. A “Manifesto
A little more than a week after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a baptized Catholic, signed off with celebratory zeal on one of the most radical abortion laws in the country — allowing babies in the state to be aborted up until
It was a hideous image: the top of One World Trade Center — a structure literally built on the ashes of men, women and children killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — glowing pink in the New York City night
In recent years, the longstanding March for Life has received considerably less media coverage than it did back in the 1980s and ’90s. Until 36 hours after this year’s March for Life ended, it appeared that the pattern would continue. And then
Catholic schools blossomed in the United States in the early 20th century as a way of equipping young Catholics to deal with rampant anti-Catholicism. If you live long enough, the saying goes, everything happens twice. And as the Church in the United
Two events took place in the earliest days of January that centered on the future of the Church in America, and they couldn’t have been more different. In Chicago, the U.S. bishops met for a weeklong spiritual retreat at Mundelein Seminary,