An attorney for the Archdiocese of St. Louis says a state court must defer to religious hierarchy in the Roman Catholic Church as it weighs a dispute over who legally controls a Polish church. The archdiocese sued St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in July 2008, seeking to bring the parish and its property under diocesan control. The Polish parish filed a counterclaim, alleging that then- Archbishop Raymond Burke went against decades of precedent in trying to take over St. Stanislaus.
Kudos to Tony Blankley for summing up the political frustrations many Republicans are experiencing while persuading conservative ideologues to support Rudolph W. Giuliani for president in 2008 ("Electoral pragmatism reconsidered," Op-Ed, Wednesday). To my amazement and disappointment, this effort is being led by hierarchy of the Catholic Church. The Most Rev. Raymond Leo Burke of St. Louis stated that he would not offer Communion to Mr. Giuliani should Mr. Giuliani attend Mass while he was presiding because Mr. Giuliani supports U.S. laws that allow abortion. For more than four decades, the Catholic Church has led the fight for the right to life by recognizing the viability and humanity of a fetus. Right-to-life opponents have stated that a woman should have the right to choose for her ...
To suggest that condom use contributes to the HIV problem is not merely contrary to scientific evidence and global consensus, it contributes to fueling HIV infection and its consequences - sickness and death," [Craig McClure] said. "Such outrageous comments are not appropriate coming from the highest office in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
Since his election as the 265th Roman pontiff on Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI has been labeled a "transition pope" by the media. Because he is the oldest pope chosen since the 18th century, it has been reported that Benedict is merely keeping the Chair of Peter warm while the hierarchy of the Catholic Church assesses the long papacy of John Paul II and decides what course to set for the next generation. This completely misses the extraordinary significance of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger becoming pope. More accurately, the 26-year pontificate of John Paul II was a transition to Benedict XVI. To accept this bold assertion, it is necessary to grasp the ideological and political trends in the Roman Catholic Church over the past four decades. Since the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65, everythi...
Pressures on the unity of the Roman Catholic hierarchy and the most educated and informed laity in the Church's history appear to increase by the day. Where Pope John XXIII called for opening the windows of the Church to the contemporary world, as the Second Vatican Council promised, a hierarchy chosen for blind conformity is increasingly oblivious of the lives of the "People of God. The breaking point cannot be far off.
GOD BLESS OUR overworked Roman Catholic priests. Their ranks keep thinning, the pews keep filling and dioceses across the nation are scrambling to meet the needs of the faithful. Whether it's having one priest serve several "clustered" parishes, recruiting more permanent deacons, or increasing the roles of the laity, the Catholic Church hierarchy is struggling to find the right combination to minister to an ever-growing number of parishioners. Especially in this country, single Catholic men aren't seeking the often-austere, task-laden lives of the priesthood.
The nation's Catholic bishops bucked decades of tradition Tuesday to select Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York as their new leader, cementing his reputation as a star of the American church and prompting some commentators to suggest that the U.S. Catholic hierarchy may be turning rightward. Dolan's election as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops "signaled a clear ascendancy of the conservative bloc," the National Catholic Reporter said. Others, however, said it primarily reflected Dolan's personal charisma.
The top hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States decided Wednesday to join the broadest alliance of Christian churches in the country so far, a new ecumenical group that would bring the church to the same table as conservative evangelicals and liberal Protestants. Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have played a central role in the formation of the group, Christian Churches Together in the USA, since discussions began with leaders of other denominations in fall 2001. The bishops approved membership in the group at a meeting in Washington.
In a dramatic and abrupt resignation speech to the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops in New Orleans last September, [Jeffrey Steenson] told his fellow brother and sister bishops: "My conscience is deeply troubled" and acknowledged that his "radical journey of faith" might seem "foolish," "disloyal" or even "an abandonment. Steenson thinks he's fulfilling history. He says he's adopted a "radical solution" to the major theological problem of his life and times. And the historical irony isn't lost on the former bishop with a PhD in patristics from Oxford University. "There's something impish in me that says I get to put my thumb in [Henry VIII]'s eye," a smiling Steenson says, remembering an enormous portrait of Henry VIII he once encountered on a daily basis. On the subject of homosexu...
... severs ties between the English Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church, putting hims... an age of uncertainty." A clear, strong hierarchy, he argues, will do that. Kennedy posits that hier...
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