Phil Lawler

2 months ago | catholicculture.org | Phil Lawler

Rounding out the argument that I began here and continued here: Thus far I have demonstrated that: the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is not “the Church,” but an organization formed to assist the bishops, and that organization is now primarily involved in fulfilling government contracts, and the fulfillment of government contracts is not a charitable endeavor but a business relationship, but the terms of that business relationship are unusual, because government contracts are...

2 months ago | brownpelicanla.com | Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Jan 29, 2025Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org. After reading Part I of this essay, several readers wrote to lament that for every dollar the US bishops’ conference spends to support pregnancy-help centers, roughly $50 goes to programs assisting immigrants.

2 months ago | brownpelicanla.com | Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Jan 28, 2025Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org. Less than a week after the Inauguration, the Trump administration is fully engaged in debate with the US bishops: a debate that seems likely to stretch over the next four years.

Jan 20, 2025 | brownpelicanla.com | Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Jan 16, 2025Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org. Five billion dollars. $5,000,000.000.00Catholic dioceses and religious orders in the United States have spent a bit more than that in the past 20 years to settle the financial costs of the sex-abuse scandal.

Jan 16, 2025 | catholicculture.org | Phil Lawler

Five billion dollars. $5,000,000.000.00 Catholic dioceses and religious orders in the United States have spent a bit more than that in the past 20 years to settle the financial costs of the sex-abuse scandal. That figure does not include the settlements paid out before the scandal emerged in the headlines: settlements that routinely involved non-disclosure agreements.