2. Cardinal Dolan writes:
Station #2…She’s in assisted living now, almost ninety, still, thank God, in decent shape. She loves her Catholic faith. She has a son a priest, four other children living their faith, handing it on to their kids, her grandkids. She is always eager to talk about the Church to her friends, Catholic and non-Catholic alike.
But not on the day last week I talked to her on the phone. “Tim,” she said to me, “I skipped lunch today. I’m ashamed to go to the dining room. I’m so embarrassed to be a Catholic. I don’t know what to say to anybody!”
She’s my mom. Only one of the millions of faithful Catholics who today are ashamed of their clergy and bishops, of their Church.
3. Bishop Robert Barron: “This is not the moment to abandon the Church, this is the moment to fight for it.”
4. God bless Elizabeth Bruenig.
5. I was on CBSN earlier today talking about the Catholic crisis and was really grateful for the fair and even loving way Anne-Marie Green and the producers handled the story.
.@kathrynlopez joined @CBSNews to discuss staying #Catholic as the crisis escalates and the major divide within the church https://t.co/ccLOkBg6Ia pic.twitter.com/ZnGmzlL9Y6
— NR Institute (@NR_Institute) August 30, 2018
6. California closer to making colleges offer abortion drugs
7. A girl in Canada has a fundraiser to help a missionary couple adopt a baby from South Africa.
8. On teaching the whole person
9. Why Trump’s numbers won’t budge.
10. Don’t Scrub the World of Priceless Moments Like This Soccer Game with My Special-Needs Son
PLUS: A column I wrote about how I was having trouble singing at Mass in recent days (I also confess to filing columns from the back of churches).