Rorate Caeli: I had the experience of living with priests who were in Stalinist prisons and camps and who nevertheless remained faithful to the Church. During the time of persecution they fulfilled with love their priestly duty in preaching Catholic … Continue reading
Category: Current Issues in the Church
Cardinal Burke Says No Authority Can Deter Him From Defending Catholic Truth
UCANews: Cardinal Raymond Burke said he was “responding to a hypothetical situation” when he stated that he would resist any possible move by Pope Francis away from Catholic doctrine. “I simply affirmed that it is always my sacred duty to … Continue reading
Cardinal Baldisseri: ‘Dogma Has Its Own Evolution . . .’
Diane Montagna, Aleteia: Last week, the debate about next October’s Synod on the Family came into view once again as the Secretary General of the Synod, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, opened a three-day (January 22 -25) international conference of lay and … Continue reading
China: Government Will Not Hand Over Remains of Bishop Shi
The Underground Church hero spent fifty-four of his ninety-three years on earth in prisons and labor camps. AsiaNews: Very “dangerous.” Very “worrying”: This is how Hebei Catholics comment on the attitude of the Beijing authorities surrounding the death of Bishop … Continue reading
Pope: Today Martyrs Are Being Killed by Enemies Who ‘Hate Jesus Christ’
“I think of our martyrs, the martyrs of our times, men, women, children who are being persecuted, hated, driven out of their homes, tortured, massacred,” the Pope told attendees of his Feb. 6 Mass, held in the chapel of the … Continue reading
Underground Chinese Bishop Arrested in 2001 Dead at 94
Catholic Culture: Bishop Cosmas Shi Enxiang of Yixian, China, who has not been seen in public since his arrest in 2001, has died at the age of 94. A leader of the “underground” church, Bishop Enxiang spent much of his … Continue reading
Cardinal Burke is Right about Altar Girls
The New Emangelization blog recently defended the words of Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke on the detrimental effects of “altar girls” on priestly vocations. His Eminence’s words came in a much discussed interview published on that same blog. To defend the Cardinal, … Continue reading
Popularizing Universal Salvation
Michael Voris on the popularization of the heresies of Hans Urs von Balthasar by Father Robert Barron and Ignatius Press. For more on this subject on our site, click here.
Stunning Revelation: Pope Approved Synod on Family’s Controversial Mid-Term Report
LifeSite News: The lead organizer of the Vatican’s Synod on the Family [Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri] has revealed that Pope Francis approved the controversial mid-term report from the meeting before it was published. Until now, Pope Francis’ role in the document’s … Continue reading
Filial Appeal to Pope Francis on the Future of the Family
Let Pope Francis know you would like him to reaffirm categorically the Catholic teaching that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics cannot receive Holy Communion and that homosexual unions are contrary to Divine and natural law. Please join us in supporting the urgent … Continue reading
Edward Pentin: Cardinal Baldisseri’s ‘Evolution of Dogma’ vs St. Pius X’s Oath Against Modernism
Worth reading: (Edward Pentin) In response to Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri’s comment that “dogma has its own evolution”, a reader on my Register blog aptly quoted Pope St. Pius X’s ‘Oath Against Modernism’. The head of the Synod of Bishops secretariat, … Continue reading
Chinese Catholics Call for Resistance of Government Interference in Ordinations
AsiaNews: Some Catholics have expressed strong opposition to the Chinese government’s plan to push forward bishop ordinations without papal approval in 2015, as indicated by comments respondents made in response to recent news reports inCatholic Online in China (Tianzhujiao Zaixian) on … Continue reading
China Will Continue to Ordain Bishops Without Pope’s Approval
UCANews: China will continue its practice of electing and ordaining bishops independent of the Holy See, according to a 2015 working plan by the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA). The plan, which appeared on the SARA website on January … Continue reading
SC Won’t Hear Case of Louisiana Priest and Seal of Confession
CNA: The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a petition from a Louisiana Catholic diocese that fears a civil lawsuit could force a priest to violate the seal of confession or go to jail. The Diocese of Baton Rouge … Continue reading
On Being Charlie
In his “Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie,” David Warren reverses the popular meme that summarizes the response of a decadent, de-christianized West to a surly, truculent Islamism. A nice sample of his writing is this: A great deal of blather … Continue reading