Catholic Church

Interview with Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò by Radio Spada, LifeSiteNews - Archbishop Viganò in a wide-ranging interview speaks of Pope Benedict's collaborators and the situation of the Church under Pope Francis.

By Fulton J. Sheen, EWTN News - Instead, then, of being dried fruit to be served on the table of the king, he was rather a blossom filled with promise and power. He was not in the evening of life, but in its morning, bubbling over with energy, strength and controlled passion. Mary and Joseph brought to their espousals not only their vows of virginity but also two hearts with greater torrents of love than had ever before coursed through human breasts. ...

By Russell Shaw, Crisis Magazine - And as we proceed with this stock-taking, here are some thoughts from a sermon called “The Lapse of Time” by St. John Henry Newman: “We know very well that much as we may have attempted, we have done very little, that our very best service is nothing worth–and the more we attempt, the more clearly we shall see how little we have hitherto attempted.”

By Jeanne Smits, LifeSiteNews - In a new development infringing on the freedom to celebrate the “extraordinary form” of the Roman rite, the Vatican’s Secretariat of State circulated a note with details of new dispositions restricting all “individual” Masses in Saint Peter’s Basilica, with special, even more restrictive measures for the traditional rite.