Catholic Church

By Patsy McGarry, Irish Times - Catholic Arch. of Dublin Dermot Farrell said... “The challenges facing me are pretty clear. We have an ageing clergy and very few vocations to the diocesan priesthood or religious life. There is a major decline in the number of people who actively practice and live their faith... “Faith needs ritual, embodiment. One must see in people how faith is lived... “The current model of the Church is unsustainable”...

By Fr. Ed Broom, OMV, Catholic Exchange - “I really get bored when I go to Mass… I don’t’ like the choir and the music… the preaching puts me to sleep… there are so many scandals in the Church… I am so busy that I simply do not have time for Mass… Going to Mass is for the old people …”... All of the above negative comments are leveled against returning to the Church and receiving the life-saving graces that flow most abundantly through the Sacraments, especially through the greatest of all Sacraments: the most Holy Eucharist.

By Raymond de Souza, Church Militant - What's the real clericalism in America today?... A controversial pro-LGBT prelate — Cdl. Blase Cupich of Chicago — is of the opinion that the high incidence of homosexual misconduct among clerics in America is not really a problem of homosexuality but of "clericalism."

By John A. Monaco, Crisis Magazine - But for a 2,000-year-old Church, the period between 1962 and 2021 is not even quite 3% of the Church’s existence. And yet, Vatican II remains untouchable, its documents not open to critical questioning, the motives of the council fathers not given sufficient probing. To even call into question the perfection and inspiration of Vatican II appears as blasphemous as questioning the inspiration of Sacred Scripture. Time and time again we are told that “Vatican II was a pastoral council” ...