Catholic Church

September 28, 2019

Millennials Are Moving to the Suburbs. Parishes: Are You Ready? by L’Alto Catholic Institute

By L'Alto Catholic Institute - Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal had an article that unpacked some data which showed that, like generations before them, millennials are finally moving out of the big cities and settling down in the suburbs. The reason seems to do mainly with the search for affordable housing, and this exodus from big cities has led to suburbs being fourteen of the fifteen fastest growing cities in the U.S… As Catholics, especially those of us who are members or leaders of suburban parishes, we have to look at our communities and ask: are we ready for this? Are we ready to go out to, engage with, and evangelize these millennials?

September 27, 2019

Cdl. Burke: Revolution Is the Goal, by Bradley Eli

By Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th., Church Militant - Cardinal Raymond Burke is warning that the Amazon Synod isn't about local evangelization in the Amazon but about revolution in the whole Church… "The Synod is presented as being for the pastoral care of the people to be evangelized in the Amazon, but the German bishops state clearly that the goal is to revolutionize the whole Church," relates Burke. "Even the bishop of Essen, Monsignor Franz-Josef Overbeck, said very recently that after the Amazon Synod 'nothing will ever be the same again' in the Church."

September 27, 2019

Amazon. Three More Cardinals Rebuff the Base Document of the Synod, by di Sandro Magister

By di Sandro Magister, L'Espresso - One after another, over three days, three more cardinals - like the Germans Walter Brandmüller and Gerhard Müller before them - have aimed severe criticisms at the “Instrumentum Laboris,” the base document of the upcoming synod on the Amazon, as well as at the general state of confusion into which they see the Church plunging... The first is Cardinal Robert Sarah… The second is Cardinal Raymond L. Burke… The third is Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino…

September 27, 2019

Amazon Synod Preparatory Document Steeped in Liberation Theology, by Stephen Wynne (Includes Video)

By Stephen Wynne, Church Militant - The impact of liberation theology on the upcoming Amazon Synod is coming into sharper view… Concerns over the Amazon Synod's Instrumentum Laboris are being compounded by an earlier preparatory document "Towards the Pan-Amazonian Synod: Challenges and Contributions from Latin America and the Caribbean."… Rife with heretical statements, the Bogotá document hails ex-priest Leonardo Boff, a leading advocate of liberation theology censured by the Vatican for his attacks on Catholic doctrine… The document scorns the salvific mission of the Catholic Church, asserting that there is no one, true faith — that all religions are capable of bringing salvation to their followers.