Catholic Church

August 17, 2020

Christ IS the Answer! Bishop Hying and Archbishop Listecki lead Eucharistic procession in Madison, WI, by Joseph M. Hanneman

By Joseph M. Hanneman, Catholic World Report - The Second Person of the Holy Trinity was given a police escort up riot-scarred State Street to the Wisconsin Capitol building on Saturday, followed in procession by 2,000 Catholics who proclaimed in word and deed that Jesus Christ is the answer and antidote to our troubled times... “What a blessing to carry Jesus Christ in His Eucharistic glory through the streets of Downtown Madison,” Hying said on the steps of the Capitol, the very spot where rioters rampaged just two months ago. “It was a sweet wait.”

August 17, 2020

Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky: An Elusive and Essential Virtue

By Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, The Catholic Thing - Tales of heroism intrigue us. The story of Jeremiah Denton – an American Navy Airman and later U.S. Senator, shot down over North Vietnam and held in the infamous Hanoi Hilton – is a gripping account of courage. In a propaganda video, his captors forced him to say the Communists were treating him humanely. Taking advantage of the bright lights to disguise his efforts, he used his eyes to blink the word “TORTURE” in Morse Code.

August 17, 2020

St. Philip Institute: A New Way to Form First-Century Christians for the 21st Century, by Peter Jesserer Smith

By Peter Jesserer Smith, EWTN - How does a bishop bring “the joy of the Gospel” to the angst of the age? Bishop Joseph Strickland pondered and prayed over this question for five years as bishop and realized it was time to do something completely new for the Diocese of Tyler... “We have to have the most intimate personal relationship with Jesus Christ that is possible to attain,” he told the Register... The bishop thought of the Catholic friends he had growing up — most of whom lost the faith — who had no one to bring them into an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ.

August 17, 2020

Why Is the Media Lying About the Church’s Finances? by Thomas Griffin

By Thomas Griffin, Crisis Magazine - The Associated Press released a dubious report claiming the Catholic Church in the United States received over $1.4 billion in Covid-19 aid which was used, in part, as payoff money for families who have experienced sexual abuse by priests. Across the globe, the Associated Press claims, “the church’s haul may have reached—or even exceeded—$3.5 billion, making a global religious institution with more than a billion followers among the biggest winners in the U.S. government’s pandemic relief efforts.”