Catholic Church

September 8, 2021

Hannah’s Glory: What Modern Women Can Learn from an Old Testament Gal, by Ann Burns

By Ann Burns, Catholic East Texas - Hannah prayed for a child. Ardently. She prayed, bawling and pouring out her soul to God. She vowed to give her son to God if he so blessed her with one. The priest, Eli, oversaw this and instead of taking pity on her, he believed she was drunk!... Doesn’t everyone have weepy conversations with God at least once in their life? As if Hannah’s life isn’t difficult enough, the priest believed she had been acting frivolously!

September 8, 2021

The New Axis of Evil? Kabul, Beijing and Vatican City, by Jason Scott Jones

By Jason Scott Jones, Church Militant - It was at The Stream that my friend and co-writer John Zmirak proposed a bold and surprising thesis: namely, that Pope Francis' deal with China (negotiated by accused sexual abuser Ted McCarrick) was not a surrender but an alliance. That alliance only deepened in subsequent months. Francis sent his right-hand man, Bp. Marcelo Sorondo, on a shepherded tour of China. ..

September 8, 2021

State Control of Sex, or Eucharistic Coherence? by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - It is impossible to curtail sexual abuse of any kind without the cultivation of the virtue of purity. And for most people, it is impossible to cultivate the virtue of purity without prayer, struggle and grace. It is doubly, triply, quadruply (and more) difficult to develop this virtue in a society which deliberately and continuously fosters impurity, not only in the breach but with the full force of government and law.

September 8, 2021

State’s Bishops ‘Celebrate Every Life Saved’ by Texas Abortion Law

By Christine Rousselle, CNA - Bishops around the country reacted with praise to a Texas law banning abortions after the detection of a fetal heartbeat and noted that women experiencing a crisis pregnancy have resources available, instead of abortion... “We celebrate every life saved by this legislation,” said the Texas Catholic Conference, the public policy voice of Texas’ 16 Catholic dioceses and 20 bishops, in a Sept. 3 statement.