Catholic Church

July 3, 2020

Is His Burden Really Light? by Marcellino D’Ambrosio

By Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D., Catholic Exchange - I once knew a woman who called herself “a recovering Catholic.” It seems that as a child, she was taught a religion that was all about guilt. Impossible demands were placed on her requiring strenuous efforts that were doomed to frustration. Turn the other cheek. Don’t even THINK about romantic flings. Love your enemies... Attempting this by sheer willpower was all too much for her, leading to an abiding sense of guilt. No wonder she rejected such a religion....

July 3, 2020

Cdl. Pell: Mission vs. Mismanagement, by Paul Murano

By Paul Murano, Church Militant - His criticism came in the form of a video message delivered on Tuesday at Rome's Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. In his message addressed to the Global Institute of Church Management, a U.S.-based nonprofit, the cardinal explains why the Church's spiritual mission is no excuse for bad financial management... "Undoubtedly, money is one of God's gifts, [but] it is also a source of temptation," he said. "To say that the Church is not a business provides no justification for us to be inefficient, much less for us to be corrupt."

July 2, 2020

Love Your Priests, by Constance T. Hull

By Constance T. Hull, Catholic Exchange - When I saw the video of Fr. Stephen Schumacher from the Archdiocese of St. Louis standing in front of the city’s statue of St. Louis, while surrounded by an angry mob, I knew it was a pivotal moment for priests in this country. This young priest attempted to engage with an angry mob set on destroying a statue of a saint they know nothing about, which was evidenced by the ignorance being shouted at him as he attempted to offer a history lesson about the king and saint... He put his life in danger in order to spread the Good News.

July 2, 2020

And Then They Came for the Catholics, by Anne Hendershott

By Anne Hendershott, The American Spectator - With the exception of a few courageous bishops, most Catholic leaders have remained silent about the mob’s destruction of the statues of the Father of California’s Catholic missions, St. Junipero Serra — replete with the callous desecration of the sacred symbol of the crucifix. It may be time now for the laity to get involved in the debate as Black Lives Matter advocates are now promising to destroy the sacred statues, religious stained glass, and revered icons that adorn Catholic churches. Claiming that the “European” depictions of Jesus are a “gross form of white supremacy,” Shaun King, one of the most well-known Black Lives Matter activists, is demanding that “they should all come down.”