VIENNA -- Austria's cardinal has overruled one of his priests and is allowing a gay Catholic to serve on a parish council.
Florian Stangl lives in a ...
These are not the actions and reactions of an institution to which we should look for moral guidance. Sexual abuse by priests is not an anomaly; abuse and pedophilia are institutionalized realities.
Holocaust denial is a pernicious strain of anti-Semitism, and Pope Benedict's ill-conceived embrace of Bishop Williamson sends a clear message within the Roman Catholic Church.