David Gibson

La decisión de cerrar las operaciones estadounidenses de Catholic News Service fortalece las mismas fuerzas ideológicas anti-Francisco que los obispos denuncian. Le da otro regalo a la tendencia anti-moderna y anti-conciliar en el catolicismo.

The decision to close U.S. operations of Catholic News Service strengthens the very anti-Francis ideological forces that the bishops decry. It gives the anti-modern, anti-conciliar trend in Catholicism another gift.

Finally, 17 years to the month after a major clergy sex scandal forced them to crack down on priests who abuse children, the Catholic bishops of the United States have set up a system designed — at least in theory — to hold their own feet to the fire if they cover up abuse.

Cardinal Walter Kasper practically bounds down Borgo Pio as he heads to lunch at a favorite trattoria a few blocks from the Vatican, a broad smile on his face.

The more than 30 young adults taking part in a global meeting of Catholic leaders to discuss how to engage today's youth have been dismissed by critics of the summit as irrelevant, or insufficiently orthodox, or worse.

The Catholic bishops of the U.S. announced Oct. 23 that at the behest of Pope Francis they will meet for a weeklong retreat in Chicago in January.