Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke was recently interviewed by Matthew James Christoff of the New Emangelization Project on the topic of the Catholic “Man-crisis” and what to do about it. The whole interview is worth reading, and not only because it wounded the progressivist … Continue reading
Category: Current Issues in the Church
Mario Cuomo: Bishops and Catholic Public Officials Who Support Abortion
Steve Skojec, 1 Peter 5: 15 years ago last August, as I walked the streets of Vienna with my college classmates, we stopped briefly before a plain, unassuming church with an exterior the color of freshly dug clay. In a city … Continue reading
The Hatred of Some Sick People Is for Jesus Personally
Catholic Culture: Recent days have witnessed the destruction of Christian symbols in Europe and the United States and the disruption of a Mass. On Christmas Day, a vandal entered a parish in Douai, France, and decapitated the heads of eight … Continue reading
German Bishops Pushing Ahead for Communion for Divorced Catholics
The Tablet: The great majority of German bishops would like to see remarried divorcees being allowed to receive the Sacraments under certain specified circumstances. Cardinal Reinhard Marx, who presented the findings of a special working group in the German bishops’ … Continue reading
‘Quality of Life’? Pope Calls Euphemistic Slogan a ‘Lie’
Vatican Insider: Time given to the sick is holy, ‘praising God’. Francis claims this in his message for the XXIII World Day of the Sick that will take place on the 11th February 2015. He addresses especially ‘all of you … Continue reading
Two Pieces on the Middle East at Christmas
As we enjoy our diminishing American prosperity this Christmas — amid our nation’s increasing balkanization — we would do well to think of others whose misfortune our Big Government and Big Business have facilitated. (Thank you, Hudge and Gudge!) I speak of the … Continue reading
Reunion of Orthodox With Rome? Only the Consecration of Russia Can Work That Miracle
Rorate Caeli: Compared to the reign of Benedict XVI there has been less talk in the current Pontificate of the reunification of Catholicism and the Separated Eastern Christians that accept the first Seven Ecumenical Councils (the “Eastern Orthodox”) being a lot … Continue reading
ISIS Beheads Four Christian Children for Refusing to Accept Islam
Catholic Online: According to Canon Andrew White, Islamic State terrorists have beheaded a man’s four children after they refused to convert to Islam. Canon White’s retelling of a man’s account was released in the press on Dec. 9, and is … Continue reading
Why Liberalism Targets the Family
In his most important book, The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an architect of the false philosophy of liberalism and thus a kind of godfather of the Revolution that has been unfolding since the philosophy first found political expression in France … Continue reading
Ghana’s Bishops’ Conference Rings Loud and Clear on Family
Rorate Caeli: Following their conference meeting in Accra from 4 through 15 November, a communique from the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference was released on the theme, “The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelisation.” An excerpt: The Church’s perennial … Continue reading
Continued Reasons for a Catholic Resistance
Before commenting on the substance of the Final Report, it is important to note that, soon after the release of the English translation of the Final Report which was officially written in Italian (not in Latin), suspicion arose as to … Continue reading
Astounding Omission in English Version of Synod’s Final ‘Relatio’
LifeSite News Hilary White: Just at first glance, and without looking it up on Google Translate, what is the difference between these two passages of a recent important Vatican document, the final “Relatio” from October’s Extraordinary Synod of Bishops? Full … Continue reading
Kenyian Bishops Exposes Mandatory Vaccine That Causes Infertility and Miscarriages
Four points, they made: (Pia de Solenni, Aletaia) That we are shocked at the level of dishonesty and casual manner in which such a serious issue is being handled by the Government. That a report presented to the Parliamentary … Continue reading
Cardinal Kasper: ‘The Pope is Not a Liberal. He is a Radical’
Crux: As the US Conference of Catholic Bishops opens its annual fall meeting in Baltimore today, German Cardinal Walter Kasper, often called the pope’s theologian, had a not-too-subtle message for the American Church. Kasper told a standing-room-only crowd at Catholic … Continue reading
No Explanation Given for Cardinal Burke’s Reassignment
Catholic News Service: The move had been widely expected since an Italian journalist reported it in September, and the cardinal himself confirmed it to reporters the following month. It is highly unusual for a pope to remove an official of … Continue reading