It’s my hunch that most reform-minded Catholics have little hope that the Vatican’s Extraordinary Synod “The Pastoral Challenges of the Fam...

Even if you don’t accept everything he says, you have to admit that Hans Kung makes a strong case for his diagnosis that the Church is sick...

The Vatican’s General  Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops released on June 26, 2014, a summary of  input concerning the pastoral challenge...

The third annual assembly of the Association of US Catholic Priests (AUSCP) took place June 23-26, 2014, in St Louis, Missouri, bringing to...

I’m not a Scripture scholar, but I think we’re living at a time when traditional interpretations of biblical passages are being re-evaluate...

There is a pattern emerging in the way in which Pope Francis exercises the authority of the papacy. His style is not to impose but to i...

I have a hunch that when the same idea or even word comes to me uninvited three times or more, I may be experiencing a whisper from the Hol...