Catholic Church

By Joan Frawley Desmond, EWTN News - Only nine months ago, Fr. Edgardo Rodriguez, a Salvadoran priest beloved in his California parish, was on a clear path to securing permanent residency in the US... He expected to live out his vocation in the Archdiocese of San Francisco... Instead, to the shock of Fr. Rodriguez, his parish community and the archdiocese, the priest was notified by U.S. immigration authorities last April that he would have to return to his home country for one year and apply for reentry, restarting the entire process ...

By Elizabeth Yore, LifeSite News, (Compliocit Clergy) - I met Jorge Bergoglio in early November 2013, a mere 6 months after his election. I was eager to attend the first pontifical human trafficking conference held inside the Vatican; it was sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences... The entire conference left me shaken. My soul was rattled by this very un-Catholic experience in the very heart of the Vatican and in the prolonged presence of Francis... The Holy See suddenly seemed like enemy territory.

By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine - Opponents of Donald Trump are using increasingly dangerous rhetoric in their campaign to keep the former President out of the oval office... The Never-Trumpers are going to get people killed. It is not hard to imagine that this is what they want. In the words of Robert Kagan in The Washington Post, “every conceivable measure” must be taken to stop what the Nevers say will inevitably be the “end of our democracy” and the establishment of a dictatorship of violence and vengeance.

By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange - Today we have another description of the work of John the Baptist before the public appearance of Jesus at the Jordan River.  In addition to calling the people of Judea to repent, John also had to answer questions about himself.  We need to know that expectation of the Messiah’s coming was at fever pitch in first century Judea.  Centuries earlier, the prophet, Daniel, was given a message from the angel, Gabriel, with a numbered calculation of years that would pass between the Exile of Judah in Babylon and the appearance of God’s “anointed one.” ...