The Narthex
We Need a Modern Cleansing of the Temple
The conclave of 2013 expected a pontiff who would clean up the Church
By John M. Grondelski | March 1st 2024 1:27 PMMost Sundays, the Church prescribes one Gospel to be read. This Sunday, the priest has a choice of two. That’s because, while the Sunday Gospels normally rotate over three years, there is an exception on the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Sundays of Lent. Lent is the season during which catechumens…
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The Church’s moral witness is muted because of the failure of bishops to clean house
By John M. Grondelski | June 21st 2023 1:58 PMFive years have passed since The New York Times broke the story that former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick had been found credibly guilty of sexual assault on a teenage altar boy in the sacristy of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, in connection with Christmas Midnight Mass. Read that sentence again. …
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