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Finding hope among the ruins: Rebuilding the Church in Ireland through sincerity

March 31, 2024

On a cold Spring morning on the west coast of Ireland, replete with intermittent showers of sleet, I travelled to the small town of Claregalway, just outside Galway city. Standing on the outskirts of the town are the impressive ruins of a Franciscan Abbey, whose origins date as far back as 1250 A.D. The story

Notre Dame historian reveals institutional flaws and failures within Jesuit order behind current scandals

March 20, 2024

The pattern of behaviour shown by Jesuit leadership in the management of the high-profile Rupnik scandal has centuries of institutional practice behind it. That’s according to Ulrich Lehner, a prominent historian at the University of Notre Dame, who has just published a German-language study of the Jesuits’ historical handling of abuse in their ranks. In

Former nuns in Rupnik abuse case reveal identities while calling for ‘complete transparency’

February 22, 2024

ROME – Two former nuns in the sexual abuse case involving former Jesuit priest Marko Ivan Rupnik, the famed Catholic artist, have revealed their names publicly for the first time while demanding complete transparency in the Vatican investigation as it moves forward. They have also called for a full inquiry into what they say has

‘Conservative’ and ‘orthodox’ priests on the rise, says major survey

November 08, 2023

The new analysis of a study that claims to be the largest national survey of Catholic priests conducted in more than 50 years has found, among other things, that priests describing themselves as “progressive” are practically going “extinct” among U.S. seminary graduates, with the vast majority of young ordinands describing themselves as conservative and orthodox.

The Church has moved on from the 1970s – the Rupnik scandal shows the Pope must do so too

October 31, 2023

One of the worst accusations against the integrity of the Catholic Church arise from the continuous sexual abuse scandals that have emerged in recent decades. In particular the “Spotlight scandals” of clerical abuse in Boston found their way into the news in 2002. The Church authorities responded by saying they were shocked and appalled, offered

Sexual abuse survivors question why Pope took so long to stop protecting Rupnik

October 30, 2023

Sex abuse survivors groups are asking why Pope Francis took so long to waive a statute of limitations to permit the possible prosecution of Slovenian priest-artist Father Marko Rupnik. Victims “need justice, not talk,” said Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins (pictured), a former member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCPM) who

Abuse survivors demand resignation of ‘totally inappropriate’ Fernández

September 30, 2023

ROME – On Friday the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA) advocacy groups issued a joint statement calling on Pope Francis to remove Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández as head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), and to rescind his elevation as cardinal, over past

Are Pope Francis, the Synod, and Simone Weil inhabiting parallel worlds?

September 25, 2023

Anna Rowlands reflects on the Synodal process and examines the shared values of Pope Francis and the French philosopher Simone Weil. For the last year, I have been moving between two seemingly parallel worlds: the writings of the 20th-century French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil and the world of Pope Francis’s Synod on the synodal character