Jeanie Hannaman

By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine - We are not called to be Church watchers. We are not called to fuss at the rectory, the chancery, or the Vatican. Our proper “stance” is to face the world with the Church at our back... The way God set up the Church is one Pope, a lot more Bishops, and exponentially more laymen. This should tell us something about our role in the Church. Clearly, the “institutional” Church is not our role, either to be in it or be overly concerned with it. ...

By Gene Thomas Gomulka, John Eighteen Thirty Seven, (Complicit Clergy) - Even if the media were to cover up for the next pope as it did for Pope Francis, the new pontiff could still be blackmailed by foreign intelligence services from countries like the People’s Republic of China if, for example, they discovered that he is a closeted homosexual who abused seminarians as a priest or bishop. The fact that Pope Francis never disciplined over 150 bishops credibly accused of sexual abuse; priests like Marko Rupnik who raped over 20 nuns; and cardinals like Robert McElroy, Blase Cupich, Christophe Pierre, and other prelates who covered up countless sexual abuse cases, means that the new pope could not discpline other bishops if they know he committed the same acts.

By Joseph Pearce, Substack - A healthy liturgy, Ratzinger wrote, was necessary for a healthy society: “It is only … when man’s relationship with God is right that all of his other relationships – his relationships with his fellowmen, his dealings with the rest of creation – can be in good order.”10 We might also say that this is true of man’s relationship with himself, as well as his relationship with others. Without a life properly ordered and oriented towards God in worship, man becomes disordered and disoriented in himself, flailing and fumbling his way in the darkness and unfathomable depths of the unknowable ego. If man will not find himself in God, he will lose himself in his self. There is no third course. ...