Catholic Church

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - I contend that the Prosperity Gospel and the Gospel of Same Sex Blessings are of the same ilk and take their inspiration from the same source—and no, that source isn’t the Holy Trinity—and I hope to show that these two seemingly unrelated heresies are indicative of the general error that grips the veritable whole of organized religion in the Western World.

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, Complicit Clergy, LifeSite News - According to a report in the Italian newspaperIl Messaggero today, the archpriest of Rome’s most famous church, Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, has stated that blessings of homosexual couples could happen there... “To show the world the maternal face of the Church and along the lines of what [Pope Francis] has asked for.”... he added that as yet nobody has asked the canons of the basilica for such a blessing.

By Deacon David H. Delaney, Ph.D.  Catholic World Report - St. John Paul II may have been the greatest expert on the human person among those who have graced the chair of St. Peter. His profound interest in the topic of human personhood arose from a confluence of his early experiences, none so formative as the dual nightmares he lived through, which wakened him to the threat posed to civilization by the fetid fruits of mistaken notions about personhood arising from the ivory towers of academia. These two nightmares were German National Socialism and Soviet Universal Socialism, both of which effectively reduced the person to his value to the State. ...

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - First, as you may be aware, we are once again in an election year. National elections in the United States, and especially presidential elections, have become mass exercises in fear and loathing. Fear, in that this latest episode of “the most important election ever” has both sides convinced that the stakes are both existentially high and nearly hopeless. Everyone is terrified their side is going to lose and everyone seems convinced that the Republic is doomed if they do. Loathing, in that everyone in both parties seems to dislike their own side only slightly less than they loathe the barbarians across the aisle.