Article A Significant Concession This short piece is the sidebar to Peter Steinfel’s analysis of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report on Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church By Peter Steinfels January 9, 2019 Sexual-abuse Crisis Bishops U.S. Catholicism
Article Why We Left We asked you to tell us your stories of why you came, left, or stayed in the church. In this installment, three readers explain why they left By The Editors January 9, 2019 LGBTQ issues Sexual-abuse Crisis Liturgy Bishops U.S. Catholicism
Article A Church within the Church The twin phenomena of integralism and intransigentism, on the rise among some US Catholics, can actually be construed as ways of leaving Catholicism behind By Massimo Faggioli January 8, 2019 Vatican II Secularism and Modernity Pope Francis U.S. Catholicism
Article Why We Stay We asked you to tell us your stories of why you came, left, or stayed in the church. In this installment, readers articulate reasons to remain By The Editors January 7, 2019 Spirituality Theology U.S. Catholicism Sexual-abuse Crisis
Article Reform Begins with Repentance As the U.S. bishops attend a retreat at Mundelein Seminary outside Chicago, Pope Francis urges them to embrace genuine humility By John Gehring January 7, 2019 Bishops Pope Francis Sexual-abuse Crisis Spirituality
Article Risking Peace A civil war that had raged for more than two decades in Uganda was brought to an end through bold peacemaking and innovative inter-religious dialogue By David A. Hoekema January 3, 2019 War and Peace Foreign Affairs Social Justice Muslim-Christian Relations