Catholic Church

By Martin Barillas, Church Militant - Juan Carlos Cruz, a gay journalist and survivor of clerical sexual abuse, is claiming that Pope Francis is "hurt" by the Vatican's Feb. 22 declaration affirming Catholic teachings on marriage and human sexuality — despite having endorsed the declaration... "I spoke with the pope," Cruz told Chile's La Tercera newspaper in an April 10 article, adding, "I don't want to betray a confidence, but I know that the pope is a man who is very hurt by this, although ultimately he is responsible."

By James R. A. Merrick, Ph.D., Catholic East Texas - It wasn’t until college that I experienced a slight change of heart. During study in England and Scotland, I toured the monumental medieval Salisbury Cathedral. I was awestruck. I heard the guide explain that the building represented architecturally the theology of the medieval Church. Through chiseled stone, soaring ceiling, and flying buttress, they gave occupants the sense that God is majestic and mysterious, luminous and lovely, almighty and all-wise.

By John-Henry Westen, LifeSiteNews - “I think what we’re living through now is what I would call a remote dress rehearsal for the Antichrist,” he said. “All this confusion coming out of Rome is a remote preparation for the rise of the Antichrist. I think there’s a certain universal softening of the ground that’s happening.”... “I think what’s happening in Rome now is even more potent because it has the external appearances of religious authenticity,” he continued. “And yet it has a forked tongue … I’m not saying the Pope is the Antichrist.

By Peter Kwasniewski, LifeSiteNews - The possibility and the probability and the actuality of scandal confronts me with an existential question: What is the Church, what is Catholicism, who is Christ, for me? Can I perceive and hold on to what is true, what is good, and what is beautiful in the midst of smokescreens, counterfeits, hideous distortions? Isn’t the fact that I can recognize and lament what is not true, good, or beautiful a kind of proof that the Lord’s voice is not silenced by the noise and the dissonance?