Jeffrey Maddrey, the former chief of department, built ties when he walked beats in Brooklyn. That seemed to insulate him as lawsuits and serious accusations against him piled up. Erden Arkan ...

Pope Francis has decided that this year, we will be discussing not any series of topics—clericalism women’s ordination to the diaconate, or ministry to L.G.B.T.Q. Catholics—but synodality ...