Catholic Church

By David G Bonagura, Jr., The Catholic Thing - Catholic education in America was completely transformed by the cultural upheavals of the late 1960s. In just a few years, Catholic colleges threw out their core curricula... and replaced them with a “choose whatever you want” program of studies. At the same time, Catholic high schools and grammar schools replaced solid catechetical instruction in the faith with an amorphous “all religions are the same, faith is all about feeling” approach to Catholicism.

By Deacon Thomas A. Moses, Crisis Magazine - In Catholic culture, we have a number of images symbolically associated with mothers and motherhood. Eve is called the mother of all the living; Mary is called the Mother of God; and the Church, through Baptism, is the mother of all Christians... In a natural sense, we all experience, through our own birth, our mother’s motherhood.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix - The following statement is from the Most Rev. Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, on San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s pastoral letter, “Before I Formed You in the Womb I Knew You”: In his Pastoral Letter, “Before I Formed You in the Womb I Knew You,” Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone offers a powerful defense of the Church’s teaching on the dignity of all human life, which logically and morally requires a consistent condemnation of abortion.

By Michele Malia McAloon, The Catholic Thing - The universal Church is about to witness, in the homeland of Martin Luther, some (but not all) German bishops taking a dangerous path toward open schism with the pope.  In outright rebellion to the text by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on March 15, 2021, which denied that the Church has the authority to bless “same-sex unions,” various German bishops plan to do just that on May 10.