Catholic Church

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - In a parish in the south, a visiting priest was giving a strong homily about reverence for human life, explicitly condemning abortion, when a woman in the congregation stood up to interrupt him… No, she wasn’t denouncing the Church’s teaching. Nor was she telling about her own experience with abortion. This parishioner was challenging the priest. If he agreed that cooperation with abortion is unacceptable, she said, why was the parish taking up the collection for the CCHD, which provides financial support for groups that promote abortion?

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Don’t think, look! We miss so much of life when we retreat into our brains to begin immediate analysis. I recently went to an art exhibit called “The Sacred Made Real.” Upon entry, I was handed a thick pamphlet describing each of the works. Instead of diving into the pamphlet, I chose to wander through and gazed upon each marvelous work. Some of them were mysterious to me, but the mystery was part of the experience. Only later did I go back and read about each work.

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant - In a scathing attack, His Imperial Highness Prince Dom Bertrand said that the end product of the synod was not Catholicism, but pantheism seeking "a complete change of the Roman Catholic apostolic Church and the Christian civilization that had existed through the Church's history."… Paragraph 10 claims that "the Amazon today is a wounded and deformed beauty, a place of pain and violence."… Prince Bertrand hits back in the video: "The Amazon is a forest. The forest doesn't suffer. But this is part of a pantheistic vision that claims the forest can suffer because nature is Mother Nature or Pachamama or whatever."

By Michael Voris, Chruch Militant - Over the weekend, in a move many see as a warm-up to be his successor, Pope Francis tapped Philippine Cdl. Luis Tagle to become the new prefect for the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples… And for the record, the cardinal prefers to be called by his nickname, Chito, rather than by the title of his office. He's even been dubbed the "Asian Francis." He has criticized the Church for using what he says are "harsh words" when talking about homosexuality or divorced and civilly remarried Catholics, whom he has said should be able to receive Holy Communion in some circumstances.