Jeanie Hannaman

By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, The Catholic Thing - As the liturgical year 2024 ticks down to its final moments, there is a touch of weariness in the Roman air, even though a Jubilee Year is soon to begin. .. The synodal assembly on synodality expired at the end of October, but the synodal process for a synodal Church continues. Just this past week Pope Francis issued a reminder not to forget what the synod had been speaking to all the churches. Not even a month out and it seems that the Holy Father is concerned that the whole matter will simply wither away.

By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine - In an earlier essay in this series, we remarked how dispassionate or despondent observers at the beginning of the 19th century might have considered that the Catholic Church was terminally ill and on its deathbed. The previous century had seen the rise of despotic and absolutist monarchs who had usurped the rights of the Church as a means of subjecting religion to the power of the state... This weakened Church was then subject to the terrors of the French Revolution which had sought to destroy the Church, replacing it with an atheistic secularist tyranny .....