Catholic Church

By Kevin Wells, EWTN News - ... events that unfolded when Our Lady visited a poor girl named Mariette Beco on a moonless winter night in 1933. Mary spoke just 91 words in her eight visits to the backwater of Banneux, Belgium. But it was those words — courteously spoken in a manner suited for a country girl — that spurred one of the greatest accounts in Church history of Our Lady’s intermediary work through a single man — Washington, D.C., native Venerable Aloysius Schwartz.

By Thomas Edwards, Catholic Herald - The leaders of the German Synodal Way decided to make waves in 2023 by leaving Biblical theology and anthropology at the door and endorsing whatever they thought secular society wanted them to endorse. This included female ordination... There are some very compelling reasons why we do not need women priests in the Catholic Church, and they have names: Mary, Maria, Teresa, Mother Teresa, Therese, Teresa Benedicta or Edith, Bernadette, Bakita—to name just a few. ...

By Dad29, Complicit Clergy - Several border-area US Catholic Bishops issued a series of demands which–they say–will “fix” the illegal alien problem... That’s consistent with the semantics games the Bishops used following the issuance of ‘Perversia Supplicans‘ which works like this: First, the Bishops underline the only positive: that the document keeps the Church’s definition of marriage intact... Second, they ignore the obvious sacrilege of issuing a blessing to couples (throuples?? quadthrouples?) living in flat-out immoral relationships... They think you’re stupid.

By John Finnis, ​Peter Ryan, Robert P. George, First Things - On December 18, the Holy See’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) released Fiducia Supplicans. That Declaration stated that priests may spontaneously bless couples in “irregular” situations—e.g., “remarried” or same-sex couples—within certain limits. Those limits were supposed to protect the Church’s witness to her teachings on sexual ethics and marriage, truths knowable by reason and divine revelation. Yet many bishops and episcopal conferences have expressed concern that providing such blessings would impede that witness, undermining the Church’s teachings...