Catholic Church

January 25, 2021

Msgr. Charles Pope: Eyes that Are Humble – A Meditation on the Conversion of St. Paul

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Today in daily Mass we read the well-known story of St. Paul’s conversion. There is a detail in the story that I have often pondered. Although I am speculating on the specifics, I think it ought not to be overlooked. Even my choice of the words “speculating” and “overlooked” (both of which refer to the eyes) indicate that we ought to “give an eye” to St. Paul’s eyes.

January 25, 2021

Pope Pickes Non-Canonical Seven Deadly Sins, by Jules Gomes

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant - Pope Francis is brushing aside the Catholic Church's canon of the seven deadly sins, opting instead for a "politically correct" version of vices in a new series for Italian television... The pope's alternative list of seven cardinal sins for the seven episodes on Nove TV excludes lust, pride, avarice, greed and sloth as laid down in the Catechism of the Catholic Church... The newer catalog of Francis' capital sins substitutes five of the canonical capital sins for the vices of despair, folly, inconstancy, injustice, and infidelity.

January 25, 2021

Tier Ranking the Most Pro-Life US Bishops, by John Henry Westen

Impeachment hearings in the U.S. Senate against former President Donald Trump will go on, but a new impeachment against Joe Biden has just been filed by a congresswoman from Georgia... Meanwhile, President Biden’s so-called “Catholicism” is coming into sharp focus as he presses on with anti-life and anti-family measures all the while receiving Holy Communion Plus — behind his desk in the Oval Office rests a photo of himself alongside Pope Francis.

January 25, 2021

One Mass, One People, by Robert B Greving

By Robert B. Greving, Crisis Magazine - In a recent article for Crisis, Father Dwight Longenecker voiced his frustration with trying to unify his parish in the midst of what seems like national disintegration. He is right to be concerned, because as the Church goes, so goes the nation (and the world). The odd thing is that the Church had, in her liturgy, a strong and unifying force some 60 years ago. Yet as the Church’s liturgy has splintered—licitly and illicitly—over the last 60 years, so have the people of the Church.