Catholic Church

February 22, 2020

Are We Called to Perfection? by Gayle Somers

By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange - In His extended teaching to His followers in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus called them to a remarkable way of life. It is helpful to understand the historical context for this session on the mountain. In the Old Testament, when Moses assembled the Israelites at Mt. Sinai after their deliverance from Egypt, God came down on the mountain to meet with them in a physical presence of fire, smoke, and loud thunder. He “spoke” the Ten Commandments to His people, giving them a radically new way to live. ....

February 22, 2020

A Catholic Style Guide, by Justyna Braun

By Justyna Braun, Crisis Magazine - A colleague at the Catholic high school where I teach approached me recently with a question. Girls at our school, he said, often dress immodestly. What could he do? He had studied Church documents and read lay publications that deplored the modern degeneration of women’s fashions. Some of these documents cite evidence of a Masonic campaign to undermine Christianity by corrupting women. Others quote statements from popes and bishops who spoke against pants, short sleeves, and low-cut necklines for women.

February 22, 2020

Vatican Priest Recruiting Freemasons in Curia, by Jules Gomes

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant - A clerical staff member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is using his position to recruit Freemasons in the Roman Curia, well-placed sources have revealed… Outraged Catholics called for Fr. Michael Weninger to be excommunicated, after Church Militant reported that the Vatican cleric, a Freemason, published a 500-page book defiantly claiming that Catholics could join a masonic lodge and "certainly not" be excommunicated.

February 21, 2020

China Claims Pope Francis Instigated High-Level Sino-Vatican Meeting, by Thomas D. Williams

By Thomas D. Williams, Breitbart, PH.D - Pope Francis instigated a recent high-level meeting between Vatican and Chinese officials, according to reports… As Breitbart News reported, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had a historic meeting last Friday with his Vatican counterpart, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, to celebrate their bilateral accord on the naming of Catholic bishops in China… A Vatican press release made no mention of how the meeting came about, but said that the two leaders had evoked the positive developments of the ongoing relations between the Peoples Republic of China and the Holy See and especially “the importance of the Provisional Agreement on the appointment of Bishops, signed on 22 September 2018.”