Article Why I Left My alienation from the Catholic Church was not mainly intellectual. It was moral, even emotional. By Jim Holt November 28, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Spirituality Theology
Article Why I Came & What I Found The church’s embrace is often a harsh one. I have been and continue to be pained by it By Paul J. Griffiths November 26, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Spirituality Theology
Article Baltimore Flop Scapegoating gay priests and pining for a world in which most Catholics agree with church teaching on birth control is no way to confront the abuse crisis By John Gehring November 21, 2018 Bishops Sexual-abuse Crisis U.S. Catholicism Pope Francis
Article Introduction The Catholic faith is first of all a gift, one a person must choose to keep. The days of Catholicism by default are behind us. By The Editors November 19, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Vatican II Secularism and Modernity Spirituality Theology
Article Why I Stay I can’t tell you rationally why I went back. It doesn’t make sense. All I can say is that I went big—and came home. By Dorothy Fortenberry November 19, 2018 U.S. Catholicism Theology Spirituality Women in the Church
Article Why I Left Have people like me, well educated and once religious, been captured by the siren song of secularism?Is it our fault? Should we try to remedy it? By Daniel Callahan November 19, 2018 Secularism and Modernity U.S. Catholicism Theology Spirituality Pope Francis