The congregation chided me to sit down.“This is Mass!” I was told. “It’s not the time.”

A judge earlier this year ordered the Archdiocese to pay $4.7 million worth of pensions to both active and retired teachers working at dozens of its schools.

From 2008 to 2013, the former cardinal kept up a public profile that included preaching at high-profile Masses, giving talks and accepting awards.

Sharing the lives and cares of others is what it means to be parish.

Francis made a leadership correction while in Argentina; he can still bring the church to a space of humility and wisdom in response to the sexual abuse crisis.

Cardinal Burke was among the first of a small number of bishops to come out in support of Viganò’s denunciation of the pope.