A Sympathetic Retrospective on Catholic Intellectual Steve Allen
COMMENTARY: The fallen-away Catholic entertainer’s issue, one might conclude, was not a quarrel with the Church’s view on thinking, but a personal crisis of faith.
Results from Tag: 'crisis of confidence within the church'
Analysis: Vatican Calls for Trust, Catholics Wait for Transparency
Following a year in which scandals of episcopal misconduct and accountability have combined to create a crisis of confidence in Church leadership in some places, reaction to the application and violation of confidentiality in the Church illustrates the emerging fault lines in a debate between parts of the hierarchy and faithful, in which both sides accept the need for transparency, though often with very different understandings of the word.
