Catholic Church

 By Stephen Kokx, LifeSiteNews - In the 17th century, French Jesuit priests like Fr. Jacques Marquette arrived in Northern Michigan and converted thousands of Native Americans to the Catholic faith. Today, towns across the region have historical markers and monuments erected in his honor... Much like the wider Church, a crisis of faith shook the Catholic community in Northern Michigan following the Second Vatican Council. ..

By Fulton J. Sheen, Catholic Exchange - Marriage as a sacrament belongs to an entirely different order than the mere union of man and woman through a civil contract. It basically regards a husband and wife as symbols of another marriage; namely, the nuptials of Christ and His Church... The analogy of the heavenly nuptials goes back to the Old Testa­ment, where God appears as the Bridegroom, and Israel appears as the bride. When God becomes incarnate in Christ, He called Himself, and was called, the Bridegroom; it is the new Israel, or the Church, which becomes His bride or His spouse.

By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News - “First of all, we are at the end of Christendom,” Arch. F. Sheen solemnly said.. in 1974. “Now not Christianity, not the Church. Remember what I am saying.”... Then he defined what he meant. “Christendom is economic, political, social life as inspired by Christian principles. That is ending — we’ve seen it die. Look at the symptoms: the breakup of the family, divorce, abortion, immorality, general dishonesty.”

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - On Monday of last week, the General Secretary of the USCCB, Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill, resigned ahead of reports that he had been a serial user of a gay hook-up app called Grindr... The reporting that precipitated the resignation came from The Pillar, an upstart Catholic media outlet run by JD Flynn and Ed Condon.