Commentary: What cannot be overstated is the force that the hierarchical culture — that privileged, secretive, unaccountable, male-only construct — can apply against any movement toward radical truth-telling.
DignityUSA responded to the World Meeting of Families office's reissue of the "Amoris" resource booklet without an image of a same-sex couple which was reproduced in the first edition on page 24.
Fr. Mark Patrick Hederman, former Benedictine abbot, urges Ireland's Association of Catholic Priests to quit arguing with bishops, engage laity, and join Francis' "velvet revolution."
A news roundup from the U.S. bishops' meeting, Pope Francis gets a Lamborghini, Cardinal Muller disagrees with the pontiff on liturgical translations, and Ireland prepares for a papal visit.
The Boston Globe's Spotlight team reports on the shrouded lives of Catholic priests' sons and daughters, pained by a past they have had to keep in the dark.
