Every informed person agrees that during the last fifty-plus years the Catholic Church has been (and is still) going through the greatest crisis of its 2000-year existence. But there the consensus ends: views about the cause, character, effects, and resolution of the crisis differ dramatically. The purpose of the Catholic Crisis Blog section of this website — perhaps my favorite topic on this multi-topic site — is to calmly, carefully, and critically explore this volatile issue by reading and discussing dozens of relevant books and essays on this all-important issue.