Catholic Church

By Father Roger J. Landry, EWTN News - The centenary of the birth of Pope St. John Paul II on May 18 is not the only anniversary of note connected with him this month. On May 25, the Church marks the 25th anniversary of his landmark encyclical on Church unity entitled Ut Unum Sint, taken from Jesus’ prayer to the Father on Holy Thursday, “May they all be one”... This encyclical was the most courageous papal ecumenical proposal since the schism with the Orthodox in 1054 and the Protestant Reformation in 1517. It confirmed as “irreversible” the Second Vatican Council’s commitment in favor of Church unity and called all Catholics, as well as our brothers in sisters in other churches and ecclesial communities, to renew and increase their efforts to respond to Christ’s appeal to work for full and visible communion.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The problem is that, as a general rule in the West, our bishops too often appear to be more concerned with maintaining their image as respectable “players” in the larger socio-political order, where they have approximately zero influence and certainly zero control, than they are with putting God’s house in order, where they still (even after decades of general incompetence and neglect) have nearly complete control.

By Martin Bürger, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal Raymond Burke also added, 'It must be clear that it is never morally justified to develop a vaccine through the use of the cell lines of aborted fetuses.'

By Aci Prensa, CNA - After Fr. Pérez fell sick with the virus, he was admitted to a public hospital where he shared a room with other patients, some of whom died... “When I was in that place, there came a time when I did feel like God could call me into his presence,” he said... “And that's when you discover abandonment, the total abandonment of saying to the Lord: ‘Here I am, if you want to call me, I am willing; if you want to leave me, I am also willing. I only ask that you please give me the strength to give absolution and attend to my brothers who are suffering from the disease just like I am’.”... Fr. Pérez believes God is using the pandemic to heal hearts. “God is making us see what is truly important.."