Catholic Church

November 28, 2023

Faith, Certainty, and Doubt, by Randall Smith

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - Are you certain God exists? Are you certain He doesn’t? Who has the burden of proof here? Should believers have to prove that God exists? Or should atheists have to prove that He doesn’t? There are plenty of people who respond by pronouncing themselves “agnostic”: “I just don’t know.”... Fair enough – unless the question of God’s existence is as pressing and relevant as whether the volcano above my house will explode in the next 24 hours.

November 28, 2023

Vatican Press Office: Francis Calls for ‘Drastic’ and ‘Intense’ Action on Environment

By Staff, Vatican Press Office - Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Holy See’s Secretary of State, has sent a message in the Pontiff’s name to the 97th Semaines Sociales de France (Social Weeks of France), a conference dedicated to Catholic social teaching, and this year to ecology... “Today, more than ever, we understand the relevance of integral ecology, according to the magisterium of Pope Francis, which addresses the social and environmental crises simultaneously and urges us not to separate what is intimately linked,” Cardinal Parolin wrote in the November 24 message.

November 28, 2023

FRANCIS FATIGUE: Even Argentina’s Had Enough, by Michael J. Matt

By Michael J. Matt, Editor, The Remnant - In this episode of The Remnant Underground, Michael J. Matt takes on critics who charge Traditional Catholics with being no better than Martin Luther for resisting Pope Francis... Do they have a point? Francis Fatigue is not reserved for Traditionalists, however. Catholic Argentina -- the pope's home country -- just elected a president who is probably Pope Francis's most outspoken critic in the world today. And he won his election with a Latin Mass Catholic as his running mate.

November 28, 2023

Synod on Synodality: A New Springtime or Pandora’s Box? by Edward Pentin

By Edward Pentin - Well where to start? Once again we’ve had a month in Rome with plenty of acrimony and contention, lots of heat and, depending on who you speak with, not a lot of light. Eagerly awaited by some, thoroughly dreaded by others, the first assembly of the Synod on Synodality on the theme “For a Synodal Church: Communion Participation, Mission,” is over.