Catholic laity are right to demand honesty from the hierarchy. But let them also be honest with themselves and others about why they remain in the church.

If the forcible removal of baptized children from non-Catholic parents was just in the nineteenth century, it remains, in principle, no less so today.

Lamentations over the Reformation tend to focus on, not theology, but what are viewed as its inevitable and detrimental social and political consequences.

Higher proportions of Catholics than evangelical Christians support Donald Trump, defying his spat with the pope and their historic allegiance to the Democrat Party.