Angelus News | March 22, 2024 | Vol. 9 No. 6
On the cover: To cap off a nearly five-decades-long career working in Church communications, Francis X. Maier had an ambitious book idea: a ‘snapshot’ of the Church in America at this time in history that captured both its strengths and its sicknesses. On Page 10, Maier shares what he took away from hearing more than 100 “confessions”’ with American Catholic leaders for the project. On Page 20, John L. Allen Jr. offers his own diagnosis of the uneasy relationship between U.S. Catholics and Rome during the Pope Francis pontificate.
On the cover: To cap off a nearly five-decades-long career working in Church communications, Francis X. Maier had an ambitious book idea: a ‘snapshot’ of the Church in America at this time in history that captured both its strengths and its sicknesses. On Page 10, Maier shares what he took away from hearing more than 100 “confessions”’ with American Catholic leaders for the project. On Page 20, John L. Allen Jr. offers his own diagnosis of the uneasy relationship between U.S. Catholics and Rome during the Pope Francis pontificate.
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<strong>March</strong> <strong>22</strong>, <strong>2024</strong><br />
<strong>Vol</strong>. 9 • <strong>No</strong>. 6<br />
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ON THE COVER<br />
SHUTTERSTOCK<br />
To cap off a nearly five-decades-long career working in<br />
Church communications, Francis X. Maier had an ambitious<br />
book idea: a ‘snapshot’ of the Church in America<br />
at this time in history that captured both its strengths<br />
and its sicknesses. On Page 10, Maier shares what he<br />
took away from hearing more than 100 “confessions”’<br />
with American Catholic leaders for the project. On<br />
Page 20, John L. Allen Jr. offers his own diagnosis of the<br />
uneasy relationship between U.S. Catholics and Rome<br />
during the Pope Francis pontificate.<br />
THIS PAGE<br />
OSV NEWS PHOTO/RALPH TEDY EROL,<br />
REUTERS<br />
Haitians fleeing violence gather to receive meals at<br />
a school being used for shelter in Port-au-Prince on<br />
<strong>March</strong> 4. The day before, Haitian officials declared<br />
a 72-hour state of emergency following the mass<br />
jailbreak of more than 5,000 inmates freed by gangs<br />
attacking a number of state institutions. Leaders<br />
there fear that the most recent cycle of kidnappings,<br />
rapes, killings, and civil unrest could result in<br />
a full-blown civil war.
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