Catholic Church

By Edward Pentin - Cardinal Raymond Burke has warned that Marxist materialism now seems to be seizing “governing power” over the United States, and that the “Great Reset” initiative of the World Economic Forum is a “manipulation of citizens and nations through ignorance and fear.”... In his homily on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 12, Cardinal Burke said “many other nations” are in the “throes of a similar most alarming crisis” which tries to “find in a disease and its prevention the way to understand and direct our lives, rather than in God and in His plan for our salvation.”

By Hadley Arkes, The Catholic Thing - The state of our public discourse may not be at one of its heights, but it should be a telling sign that we haven’t heard anyone say that we have a remarkable “consensus” on the Pythagorean theorem.  There is no citation to credentialed people to assure us that it’s “accepted” among those who should know that the square of the hypotenuse in the right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the two adjacent sides.

By Fr. Quan Tran, Catholic Exchange - St. Thomas Aquinas describes holiness as the perfection of charity. This makes sense because Scripture tells us that God is love and that He is holy. Therefore, to be holy is to be like God and to love perfectly. But how do we know of God’s love? And what does perfect love look like?... St. John tells us, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life”. God’s love is revealed in the Paschal Mystery, that is, the life, Passion, death, and Resurrection of Jesus. St. Paul adds, “God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us."

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - Just last week, the president of the Polish bishops’ conference, Archbishop Stanisław Gądecki, criticized the “attacks” on John Paul, arguing that the late Holy Father’s record on sexual abuse was pioneering and creditworthy, as he “initiated the process of detecting sexual crimes and punishing clergymen who perpetrate them.”... Arch. Gądecki cited the apostolic constitution Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela, which was promulgated by John Paul in April 2001. To this day it remains the centerpiece of the Vatican response to sexual-abuse cases ....