Catholic Church

By Christopher Altieri, Catholic Herald - “What I do sense is a certain impatience,” Bishop Scharfenberger told WKBW. “You know, ‘We should have done a lot of things yesterday’ – and I want to do things in a very deliberative way, so that we get it right.”… In point of fact, Bishop Scharfenberger has been quite frank from the very beginning, that he has no specific mandate – no “marching orders”, to use his phrase – for Buffalo. What happened in Buffalo before Bishop Scharfenberger got there is not his fault. The Holy See has not made it any easier for him to take effective responsibility for the crisis.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - As we have seen, the Book of Proverbs takes up the form of a father advising his son. One of the most critical roles a father or parent has is to teach and hand on the preserved and tested wisdom that comes to us from God and from experience. Hence a father should teach his children at length regarding all matters of life, including sexuality. He should also insist that his children both listen (incline their ears) and apply (attend to) the wisdom that comes from God.

By Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D.,  Church Militant - "I don't understand why Catholic establishment media keeps accepting the word of Church officials, rather than doing their due diligence and confirming whether dioceses are being truthful," Michael Voris, CEO of Church Militant, commented… "In this day and age, when Church leaders have consistently shown themselves unreliable and lacking in transparency — particularly highlighted during the Summer of Shame," Voris continued….