What We Need Now
What We Need Now seeks faithful, authentic reform of the Catholic Church. Our essays aim to help Church leaders (lay and clerical) pursue life-giving renewal
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The Global Future of the Catholic Church
In recent months there have been several articles in both Catholic and secular press noting an uptick in interest in the Catholic Church by young adults in the United States. While encouraging, some of the reporting was based on anecdotal o...
Dawn Amidst the Darkness: Dispatch from New York City
I found myself with a free morning in New York City and decided to do some reconnaissance work at Saint Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village. St. Joseph’s has recently been highlighted as a lodestar of a trend which more than the usual outl...
The Project of Christian Humanism
In its penetrating analysis of “the modern world”, the Second Vatican Council reached that most important point of the visible world that is man, by penetrating like Christ the depth of human consciousness and by making contact with the i...
Just War 101: Catholic Teaching for a Dangerous Moment
The story of Father George Zabelka, the military chaplain who blessed the Enola Gay crew before Hiroshima, and who spent the rest of his life wrestling publicly with it, is a story that I only recently came across.
Father George Zabelka wa...
Sex and Catholic Social Teaching
As someone who has long labored in the service of the Catholic Church’s teachings on fraught sexual expression topics, I think I understand Pope Leo XIV’s recent remarks on Catholic sexual morality in response to a reporter’s question about...
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