AsiaNews: I could not return to my home as the rioters had burned down my house. Spending whole night in the forest I came the following day to my mother’s house Raikia through forest. I met my husband there and as … Continue reading
Category: Current Issues in the Church
Belgium: New Bishop-Elect Says Synod Did Not Go Far Enough
Catholic World Report: Bishop Jozef De Kesel: “The Synod may not have brought the concrete results that were hoped for, such as allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion. But it is unbelievable how much it was a sign … Continue reading
Catholic Conference on Family Brings Unity and Draws Moslem Convert
AsiaNews: Conclusion of Indonesian Catholic Church’s National Conference in (Sagki 2015) themed on the family. Many testimonies flow from west to east. After 35 years of marriage, a Muslim woman has converted to Catholicism, her husband’s faith: “Now our joy is … Continue reading
Sunday in Syria: When Missile Hits, Move the Mass Outside
Imagine living in this war-torn nation not knowing if you will be the victim of terror at any moment. Yet the brave faithful gather for Holy Mass. Catholic News Agency: When a missile hit the roof of the church of Saint … Continue reading
Catholic Author Exposes Bigotry of The Boston Globe
The Hollywood formula film Spotlight, which celebrates The Boston Globe for its campaign to bring down the Catholic Church by revealing that hundreds of minors in the Archdiocese of Boston were molested by perverted priests—who are always carefully described as … Continue reading
L’Osservatore Romano: Theologian Subverts Family on Front Page
Catholic Culture: In an article published on the front page of L’Osservatore Romano, an Italian theologian who participated in the last two synods on the family said the people of God can rejoice that the more recent synod’s final report … Continue reading
The Pope and the UN’s ‘Development Goals’
On September 25, shortly after Pope Francis gave his speech to the United Nations in New York, all 193 member states of the United Nations formally adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) about which many Catholics are very concerned. LifeSiteNews … Continue reading
Bishop Athanasius Schneider on the Final Report of the Synod: Obscuration, Confusion, Subjectivity
(Rorate Caeli) The XIV General Assembly of the Synod of the Bishops (October 4 – 25, 2015), which was dedicated to the theme of “The Vocation and Mission of the Family in the Church and Contemporary World”, issued a Final … Continue reading
Ukrainian Church Decries Synod Discussing Homosexuality When the Family Was the Issue
Crisis: Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Head of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: “It is a great tragedy and a great moral evil to propagandize homosexuality as some kind of model for relations or even the attempt, at the legislative level, to compare such … Continue reading
Pat Buchanan on Heresy at the Synod
“Are Catholic truths immutable? Or can they change with the changing times? “This is the deeper question behind the issues that convulsed the three-week synod on the family of the 250 Catholic bishops in Rome that ended Saturday.” Full column … Continue reading
Phil Lawler Accuses Synod Fathers of ‘Deliberate Ambiguity’
Is the importance of getting a “consensus” greater than transmitting Catholic faith and morals in their integrity? For some of those involved in the recent Synod of Bishops, the answer seems to be Yes. For them, the Synodal process is a … Continue reading
Bishop Conley: ‘Counterfeit Conscience’ No Appeal at Final Judgment
First Things: A Catholic who believes that conscience might really abrogate the Gospel has abandoned belief in the normativity of divine law, and its contribution to human flourishing. And a pastor who fails to instruct a misguided conscience seems to … Continue reading
The Synod is Over
The 2015 Synod of Bishops has concluded. Now begins the process of studying, understanding, implementing, or resisting the various provisions of its final document. Much of this will be in the form of “spin.” Modernists will cheer. “Conservatives” will defend the … Continue reading
Spain’s Socialist Party Wills to Take Religion Out of Catholic Schools
CNA: As Spain prepares for its general election in December, Pedro Sánchez, the leader of the nation’s socialist party, has said that if elected his government will pull religion courses from both public and private schools. Sánchez leads the Spanish Socialist … Continue reading
Bishop Sees Satan and Marxism Behind Agenda of Synod Modernists
The errors of Russia, one of which is Communism, are spreading more rapidly than ever, infiltrating the Church itself. LifeSiteNews: From interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider: This is ultimately neo-Communist and Marxist because the ideology of Marx wants to abolish every … Continue reading