The Week, Damon Linker: Opinion journalism isn’t a career for the thin-skinned. In the age of social media, that’s truer than ever. Pundits are paid to hit hard, and their critics — frequently dozens of them, and sometimes hundreds or thousands … Continue reading
Religious Affairs Administration says Catholics must “walk the path of an independent church.” UCANews: Authorities overseeing religion in China told a group of Catholic bishops and leaders to insist on “sinicization,” in a gathering that took place soon after Beijing concluded … Continue reading
I clipped this from Brantly Millegan of Church Pop. Note the saint’s pain for Lutherans who died in their heresy: The entrance seemed to be by a long narrow pass, like a furnace, very low, dark, and close. The ground … Continue reading
“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
Why “a little”? Couples will legally be able to have two children. The Communist leadership wants to diffuse a “demographic time bomb.” (Bloomberg Business) China’s ruling Communist Party will abandon the one-child policy introduced in the late 1970s to defuse … Continue reading
LifeNews: “You know, things are set up in such a way that the person in the world who has the greatest interest in protecting the baby is the mother,” claimed Carson. “We’ve allowed the purveyors of the vision to make … Continue reading
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
CNA: “And this begs the question: Do the German bishops believe that Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher sacrificed their lives in vain?” Part of the column from the Archbishop is here.
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
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
Taylor Marshall: One of the very unfortunate results of the New Lectionary is that verses that might be deemed offensive have been removed from our liturgical celebrations. Full report is here.
I will bless the LORD who gives me counsel; even in the night he admonishes my kidneys (Psalm 16:7). Th following is a beautiful meditation from the great teacher and priest, Monsignor Charles Pope. Community in Mission: One of God’s … Continue reading
The Telegraph: Cosmas Shi Enxiang was ordained as a priest in 1947, two years before Chairman Mao’s Communist Party seized power and set about jailing Christian leaders, driving out missionaries and dismantling or destroying churches. Bishop Shi’s troubles began in 1954, … Continue reading
Rorate Caeli: Urgent news from inside the Synod hall today: URGENT ++ OVERWHELMING majority against communion to “remarried divorcees, according to #Synod sources++ https://t.co/RHlM10cUOK More here.
The Weather Channel: The Temple of Santiago was built in 1564 in southern Mexico’s Chiapas state, according to Huffington Post. When a devastating plague gripped the area from 1773 to 1776, the church was abandoned, the report said. Then, in 1966, … Continue reading
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