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Michael Sean Winters: EWTN's Arroyo and his "papal posse" should be careful what they wish for; the results from Texas' primary are shocking; The New York Times' free speech editorial relied on a conception of freedom from.

 

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati will not participate in nor support a men's conference because it opposes "attempts by either the right or the left to divide the Catholic Church by political position."

Phyllis Zagano: Francis and Vatican officials have repeatedly refuted claims that COVID-19 vaccines are morally tainted. That so many lay Catholics and clerics are ignoring church teachings demonstrates a large leak in the barque of Peter.

Some of the biggest stars of one of the nation's biggest networks, Fox, were proven to be dishonest about one of the biggest stories of the year and to have violated the first principle of journalistic ethics: Do not become part of the story. And the Catholic Church's largest media outlet is in bed with that network.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to recent articles about Pope Francis' criticism of EWTN and the U.S. bishops' close relationship with the network.

Michael Sean Winters: It is frankly shocking that the U.S. bishops' conference has done so little to help the bishops and people of the church in this country prepare for this synodal process. But their inertia needn't be ours. Start by rereading documents of the Second Vatican Council.

Michael Sean Winters: Raymond Arroyo's weekly "The World Over" began airing on EWTN in September 1996. It served to extend the kind of conservative Catholic conversations found on the network's "Mother Angelica Live" into the realm of politics. Now network leadership should think seriously about its role in the church.

The Napa Institute announced plans to expand its work to include programs on priestly formation and a lecture series at the University of Notre Dame, during its summer conference July 22-24 at a spa resort in California.