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Part of the problem that gave rise to this post may well be anonymity. In the blogosphere, you can be anyone, or no one, and get away with almost anything. No one needs to be accountable, or own up to their words. Commenters are shielded by a velvet curtain.    The columnist Leonard Pitts touched on…

That is just one part of a remarkable and inspiring address delivered recently by Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn from San Francisco. You can read the whole thing at America magazine, but here’s one nugget among many: I was a seminarian when Fulton Sheen was ordained a bishop. I was choir director for the Mass…

Those words conclude this remarkable speech, delivered by a non-Catholic businessman in Ohio way back in 2003!   You’ll want to read it all, but here’s a sample: The Church today, and when I say the Church keep in mind I am talking about the Catholic Church, is bleeding from self-inflicted wounds. The agony that…

Could those familiar words of the Act of Contrition help the Church to heal itself? Over at the Huffington Post, Fr. James Martin goes on at great length on the subject of penance, finally concluding: What would a real penance look like? What kind of penance would “correspond,” to use the Catechism’s language, with these…
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