Catholic Church


Young French intellectual defends the Pope

Catholic Culture | 17 August 2010
A prominent young French intellectual has remarked that attacks on the Catholic Church reflect a general “instinct about the special purity of its mission.”

‘Good troops, bad generals’

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 May 2010
Good troops, bad generals is the emerging meta-narrative of commentary on the Catholic Church and the sexual abuse scandal.

Practicing Catholics unfazed by abuse scandals

Carolyn Moynihan | 07 May 2010
A new poll conducted by CBS News and The New York Times finds most Catholics not affected by the scandal.

Church for everyone

Sheila Liaugminas | 09 April 2010
How will the Church emerge from this current crisis? Some columnists from big media are showing their concern, and offering their ideas...

Jewish defender of Catholic Church

Sheila Liaugminas | 06 April 2010
Jewish businessman Sam Miller first wrote an article smacking down media bias against the Catholic Church in June 2008. It has suddenly started circulating again, and seems more timely now than ever.

Gameplan for Pope’s critics

Michael Cook | 04 April 2010
Critics of the Pope also have an eye for commercial spin-offs. The brand-new website Put the Pope In Jail is offering T-shirts, buttons, magnets and coffee mugs with a distinctive logo. Prices are reasonable: a water bottle for US$26.99 and T-shirts for $34.99. Ten percent of the proceeds go to the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. The website has an outline of its aims – to dismantle the Catholic Church:
 
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