Catholic Church

By Joseph Enders, Church Militant - The latest example of the Vatican's unwillingness to allow local bishops the freedom to openly discuss regional problems comes from the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF)... In a letter to the U.S. bishops last week, Cdl. Luis Ladaria stepped in to tell the USCCB to broaden its language on denying the Eucharist to pro-abortion Catholics, like Joe Biden, in public life.

By Thomas V. Mirus, Catholic Culture - ...we can no longer be surprised at the existence of corrupt and abusive priests and bishops. Priestly sexual abuse, for example, was a problem the Church had to fight during the Middle Ages... The scandal of 2020 and beyond, however, finds no equal precedent in Church history. That bishops throughout the world would choose, of their own volition and without even the excuse of persecution, to deny participation in Mass to the laity for long periods of time ...

By Jimmy Akin, EWTN News - A young shepherd girl, Lucia dos Santos, said that she experienced supernatural visitations as early as 1915, two years before the famous appearances of the Virgin Mary. In 1917, she and two of her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, were working as shepherds tending their families’ flocks. On May 13, 1917, the three children saw an apparition of Our Lady. She told them, among other things, that she would return once a month for six months.