Catholic Church

Complicit Clergy, Oct. 1, 2021 - In her National Catholic Reporter article “Catholics seeking ‘religious’ exemptions from vaccines must follow true church teaching on conscience”, M. Therese Lysaught, a professor of bioethics and a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, maintains that Catholics in good conscience MUST receive a COVID-19 vaccine. She provides a template for a “dialogue” with someone asking for an exemption.

By Michael Warsaw, EWTN News - What’s needed to combat militant secularism and pro-abortion expansionism remains identical to what turned the tide at Lepanto: trust in God and Our Lady’s intercession... Four hundred and fifty years ago this month, on Oct. 7, 1571, Christian naval forces won one of the most significant victories in global history, destroying a considerably larger fleet of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto off the coast of Greece.

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - One of the most common defenses of homosexual behavior is: “This does no harm to you or any other third parties.” To which my response is: “No harm? Well, it has pretty much ruined the Catholic Church in America.”... Homosexuality among priests, and sometimes among bishops; plus an attitude of tolerance towards homosexuals among non-homosexual priests and bishops, as if same-sex intercourse is no big deal ....

By Eric Sammons, Crisis Magazine - Catholics rightly no longer blindly follow the “pray, pay, and obey” model of the early 20th century (a model, I’ll note, that was never historically the norm in the Church). This doesn’t mean that we should disregard or disrespect our bishops, but we must hold them accountable. While we should be cognizant of a bishop’s myriad responsibilities, we cannot allow him to forget that the salvation of souls—not the administration of organizations—is the primary mission of the Church.