In August 2001, I wrote an article, “Home Alone in the Priesthood,” that was published in America magazine. My thesis was that as more diocesan priests find themselves living alone, pastoring one or more parishes, both bishops and the laity need to provide more support than was offered in the past when two, and sometimes three, priests lived together in rectories. I identified various consequences that result from priests living alone, including retention problems, an increase in health and disciplinary problems, requests for early retirement, etc. Looking back at my article twenty-five years later, I have to say that I agree with 90% of what I wrote, and that almost everything I predicted has come to pass. While an October 14, 2025, “National Study of Catholic Priests,” provided data that supported many of my earlier findings, the recent study did not adequately explain “Why Are So Many Young Priests Leaving Ministry?” Even though the study identified “burnout” and “loneliness” …
The following column, republish from America Magazine, was authored by Daniel E. Garcia, Brendan J. Cahill and Robert J. Brennan In the Gospel of Luke, a scholar of the law poses a question to Jesus that continues to echo in our hearts today: “And who is my neighbor?” (10:29). It is a question that reveals both the yearning and the resistance found within the human spirit—a desire to do what is right and yet a temptation to draw artificial boundaries around our compassion. This Gospel truth compels us to speak with clarity and conviction in the face of injustice toward our neighbors. Today, too many of our brothers and sisters live under the shadow of fear. In particular, right now in our country, those who are Black, Brown, Asian and Native American live in fear of being profiled, detained or deported simply because of the color of their skin. This fear is not abstract. It is part of daily life for many in our parishes, our schools and our communities. Our Lord responds to the question …
The Three Stooges are really stupid. The socialism of their words convicts them of being watered-down communists. Do not listen to advice coming from fools.
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s recent crusade against nonprofit organizations has been turbocharged by a flurry of favorable court rulings validating his use of a nearly 150-year-old state law to demand a company’s internal documents, and move to shut them down if they don’t comply. Over the last two years, Paxton has launched investigations into at least a dozen companies, mostly immigrant-serving nonprofits, claiming they were breaking the law, or in some cases, their own corporate charters. None of these allegations have yet been proven in court. What two key Texas courts and a federal appeals court have said, though, is that Paxton has wide authority to demand internal corporate records and file lawsuits to revoke a company’s right to do business in Texas if he believes they are violating the law. He can bring these legal actions without offering evidence to back up his claims, a Texas appeals court ruled. While a judge would eventually have to rule on the merits of the allegations …
Ultimately, one of the central problems of Novus Ordo (among many elbowing their way in for first place, and we know what our Lord thought about anything seeking to be 'first') is that it appears to be focused upon the liturgy as performance as opposed to the liturgy as all encompassing prayer.
Second, normalize sexual pleasure as the central analogy for divine encounter. If the deepest human experience of unity is orgasm, then that becomes the template for mystical union. The body scan with “no part of the skin insensitive” is the formation of a particular way of inhabiting the body, where spiritual attention deliberately passes through explicitly erogenous zones.
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Charities USA, and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network issued a letter stating that they “strongly oppose” the Trump administration’s decision to end the automatic extension of employment authorization for migrants. In a 14-page letter to an official of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, the organizations argued that the decision “will guarantee widespread employment-authorization gaps; destabilize fragile households; generate severe backlogs and administrative burdens for affiliates; impede the functioning of state agencies, such as Departments of Motor Vehicles; and impose substantial costs on US employers and local economies.” William Quinn, the USCCB’s general counsel, signed the letter on behalf of the bishops’ conference. Source: Catholic Culture TAKE ACTION: Contact NGOs leaders and let them know what you think. Post Views: 42