Catholic Church

By Lauretta Brown, EWTN News - The USCCB voted overwhelmingly to approve a teaching document on the Eucharist Wednesday... The document did include a section on worthiness to receive Communion, reminding the faithful that “if a Catholic in his or her personal or professional life were knowingly and obstinately to reject the defined doctrines of the Church, or knowingly and obstinately to repudiate her definitive teaching on moral issues” they “should refrain” from Communion ...

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The Gospel from this Wednesday’s Mass... is known as the “Parable of the Ten Gold Coins.” It has an ending so shocking that, when I read it at Mass some years ago, a young child said audibly to her mother, “Wow, that’s mean!”.. I’d like to look at it and ponder its shocking ending...

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Have you often wondered why so many American bishops—including some whose personal orthodoxy seems unassailable—regularly surrender ground to dissidents? The best available explanation, a witty and perceptive essay, “’Tames’ in Clerical Life,” was published in Latin Mass magazine in Summer 1996.

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - When the bishops voted last summer to approve a draft of this document the Conference insisted, “The question of whether or not to deny any individual or groups Holy Communion was not on the ballot.” That was the case then; it remains the case now. According to canon law, the responsibility for sacramental discipline in a given diocese lies with the local ordinary