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☆ In the American Church, the Pope Has Critics Among Leaders and Laypeople
  + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Ruth Graham | More About Ruth Graham | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Pope Francis’s relationship with the conservative wing of the American Catholic church was already on shaky ground when reports surfaced this week of his plan to evict one of his most prominent critics from a Vatican-subsidized apartment in Rome. Cardinal Raymond Burke, who led dioceses in St. Louis and Wisconsin before moving to Rome, is a lion of the faith among conservative Catholics who see him a defender of tradition and orthodoxy in a dangerously unmoored church. The move comes just weeks after Francis fired another outspoken critic, Bishop Joseph Strickland, who was removed from his post in Tyler, Texas, following a Vatican investigation into his leadership. Both decisions prompted a public outcry from conservative church leaders, making it clear that restoring unity in the divided American Church will take more than swatting down a few high-profile clerics. The pope’s increasingly open pushback against theological and liturgical conservatives in the church has nurtured a deep wariness of his leadership among conservatives in the church, who exist at all levels of Catholic life in America.
Persons: Pope, Cardinal Raymond Burke, Francis, Bishop Joseph Strickland Organizations: American Catholic Locations: Rome, St, Louis and Wisconsin, Tyler , Texas, America
☆ As Catholic Leaders Met, Fired Bishop Took His Message to the Street
  + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Ruth Graham | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Inside a windowless hotel ballroom on the Baltimore waterfront on Wednesday, more than 250 American bishops were trying to pilot through the choppy waters of the increasingly contentious relationship between Pope Francis and conservative American Catholics, many of them in their own ranks. But the most visible sign of that struggle was outside on the street, as a small crowd gathered to show support for Bishop Joseph Strickland, the bellicose Texas bishop fired by Francis over the weekend. Bishop Strickland has accused the pope of undermining the Catholic faith and represents an outspoken cohort in the church who view Francis as dangerously liberal. Just steps from the hotel, Bishop Strickland’s supporters sang and knelt to pray with the deposed cleric. Most held rosaries, and some hoisted signs reading, “We stand with Bishop Strickland.”
Persons: Pope Francis, Bishop Joseph Strickland, Francis, Bishop Strickland, Bishop Strickland’s, ” Organizations: Bishop Locations: Baltimore, Texas
☆ Pope’s Remarks on ‘Reactionary’ U.S. Catholics Rankle, and Resonate
  + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Ruth Graham | More About Ruth Graham | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
When Pope Francis spoke of “a very strong, organized, reactionary attitude” that opposes him within the Roman Catholic Church in the United States and, in comments that became public this week, warned against letting “ideologies replace faith,” some American Catholics recognized their church immediately. “He is 100 percent right,” said the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and commentator who is considered an ally of Francis. The opposition to Francis within the American church now, he said, “far outstrips the fierceness of the opposition to Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict,” the two previous popes. When Father Martin visits Rome these days, he said, the first question many people there ask him is, “What is going on in the U.S.?”It’s essentially the same question that prompted the pope’s sharply critical remarks, which were made impromptu last month and published this week by the Vatican-approved Jesuit journal La Civiltà Cattolica.
Persons: Pope Francis, ”, James Martin, Francis, Saint John Paul II, Pope Benedict, Father Martin, It’s Organizations: Roman Catholic Church, Jesuit, Vatican Locations: United States, Rome, U.S, Cattolica
☆ Opinion | My Church Was Part of the Slave Trade. This Has Not Shaken My Faith.
  + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Rachel L. Swarns | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
For more than a century, Catholic priests in Maryland held Black people in bondage. So after the Civil War, the emancipated Black families that had been torn apart in sales organized by the clergymen were confronted with a choice: Should they remain in the church that had betrayed them? Over the past seven years, I’ve pieced together the harrowing origin story of the American Catholic Church, which relied on slave labor and slave sales to sustain itself and to help finance its expansion. As I’ve considered the choices those families faced in 1864, I have found myself pondering my faith and my church and my own place in it. It was one of the largest documented slave sales of the time, and it shattered entire families.
Persons: Black, I’ve, Witnesses Organizations: American Catholic Church, Georgetown University Locations: Maryland, Louisiana
☆ U.S. Catholic Priests Are Increasingly Conservative as Faithful Grow More Liberal
  + stars: | 2022-12-18 | by ( Francis X. Rocca | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
While young priests hold on to tradition, Catholic laity have been moving in a more liberal direction. American Catholic priests are becoming more conservative, even as their flocks are becoming more liberal. U.S. Catholic bishops elected conservative leaders last month, continuing to resist a push from Pope Francis to put social issues such as climate change and poverty on par with the bishops’ declared priority of opposing abortion.
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