Catholic Church

November 3, 2020

Our Cyrus Has Come, by Michael Warren Davis

By Michael Warren Davis, Crisis Magazine - Not even Tolkien could have imagined a man like Donald Trump appearing, like some latter-day Cyrus, to lead us Catholics this great battle against the Evil One. It’s too spectacular for fiction. Yet here he is: Donald the Great, come to deliver the faithful from our long exile. And, though not a Catholic himself (at least, not yet), he commands us to “rebuild the house of the Lord.”... The Jews knew a good thing when they had it, and to this day they honor Cyrus as an agent of Divine Providence. We Catholics are a bit slower on the uptake... Yet I believe that America’s Catholics will rise to this historic challenge. We’re made for adventure, and this may be the greatest adventure of our lives.

November 2, 2020

Faith – The Real Crisis, by Bevil Bramwell

By Bevil Bramwell, OMI, The Catholic Thing - In 1969, then Father Joseph Ratzinger said in a radio broadcast in Germany: “it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times. The real crisis has scarcely begun. We will have to count on terrific upheavals. But I am equally certain about what will remain at the end: not the Church of the political cult, which is dead already, but the Church of faith.”

November 2, 2020

‘He lived the Beatitudes’: Mass of Thanksgiving for Blessed Michael McGivney, by Jonah McKeown

By Jonah McKeown, CNA - At the Nov. 1 Mass of Thanksgiving for newly beatified Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus, Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore said McGivney provides a model for both priests and laypeople of how to “live the Beatitudes.”... “Anyone aspiring to holiness will exhibit those luminous qualities that Jesus perfectly exemplified...having lived the Beatitudes so consistently and thoroughly, Father McGivney led his parishioners to holiness,” Lori said in his homily.

November 2, 2020

Bp. Barron Hit With Massive Backlash After Praising Pro-LGBT Fr. James Martin, by Doug Mainwaring

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews - Social media erupted with sharp backlash from orthodox Catholics decrying Barron’s support for Martin... “Now that Barron has publicly endorsed a book on prayer by Fr. James Martin, he has absolutely no credibility for orthodox Catholics,” declared LifeSite columnist Dr. Peter Kwasniewski... “This, friends, is a moment of God-given clarity,” continued Kwasniewski. “Barron, standing atop his media empire, brandishing a new Barronized Bible, has made the mistake of thinking he’s invincible.”