Catholic Church

December 4, 2020

Don’t Waste Advent, by Joan Watson

By Joan Watson, Integrated Catholic - Advent is the most counter-cultural season we celebrate. People look at me askance when I don’t start listening to Christmas music the day after Halloween or put up my tree the day after Thanksgiving. Am I a grinch that hates Christmas? Of course not. I love Christmas – and that’s why it’s worth waiting for... Our world doesn’t know how to wait. It doesn’t know how to postpone answering immediate wants and desires.

December 4, 2020

2 Things To Do When Shepherds Don’t Shepherd, by Carrie Gress

By Carrie Gress, Theology of Home - The absence of leadership in some of our shepherds is a continual wound for many. “These are our shepherds! Why won’t they lead? What are they doing?” But this wound doesn’t have to continue to bleed. We have two things we can do... The first thing we can do is change ourselves. Rather than being mired in anger and dismay, we can adjust our expectations. ...

December 4, 2020

Yes, the Media Is Our Enemy, by Michael Warren Davis

By Michael Warren Davis, Crisis Magazine - So, yes: progressive media is the Church’s enemy. And Catholic media is the enemy of progressive media. There is no “we” when talking about Catholic and progressive journalists. It’s comparing apples and oranges, or ought to be. We don’t share a common vocation. Real Catholic media exists to defend the Church; progressive media, to destroy her.

December 4, 2020

Arch. Carlo Maria Viganò: ‘Sold Out to Satan’: Viganò Unloads on Coronavirus ‘Pseudo-Health Regime’

By Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, LifeSiteNews - These are the paradoxes of a misguided power, managed by people corrupt in the soul and sold out to Satan, a power which, after obsessively repeating the mantras of “democracy” and “power belongs to the people” is now forced to impose a dictatorship on the people themselves, in the name of the achievement of objectives aimed at protecting the political and financial interests of the elite... This Great Reset, desired by the globalist elite, represents the final revolution with which to create a shapeless and anonymous mass of slaves connected to the internet, confined to the house, threatened by an endless series of pandemics designed by those who already have the miraculous vaccine ready.