Catholic Church

By Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th., Church Militant - The Vatican's head liturgist is saying the current crisis in the Catholic Church is rooted in a pervasive loss of faith that the Eucharist is really Christ… During an interview published on Monday, Cdl. Robert Sarah discussed why the Church is in crisis. The crisis of eucharistic faith, said the cardinal, was the fundamental cause… "The decline of faith in the Real Presence of Jesus the Eucharist is at the heart of the current crisis of the Church and its decline, especially in the West," said Sarah.

By Michael R. Heinlein, Our Sunday Visitor - When it comes for the Church’s path forward and how the bishops can help, Bishop Strickland points to the need for authenticity, both in practicing what is preached and preaching what is believed… “I think the best answer is for bishops to be faithful to Christ and faithful to his Church and guard the deposit of faith,” he said. “Each bishop has to look at Christ and look at his teaching expressed in the Scriptures and doctrine of the Catholic faith and do his best to uphold those teachings. To guard the deposit of faith. To me it becomes as simple as that. That’s where the healing will come from ultimately, from bishops teaching clearly.”

By Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews - Speaking about his visit and conversations in Rome which ended on September 20, the President of the German Bishops' Conference and archbishop of Munich-Freising insisted that they have been “throughout positive and encouraging.”… “There is no stop sign,” explained Marx, “it was a constructive encounter” with Ouellet and the Pope, so that “I cannot see that the synodal path now somehow would be endangered.”… That is to say, Pope Francis did not tell Cardinal Marx to stop a project that plans to question the Church's …

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - (Sarah) I wanted to open my heart and share a certainty: The profound crisis that the Church is experiencing in the world and especially in the West is the fruit of the forgetting of God. If our first concern is not God, then everything else collapses. At the root of all crises, anthropological, political, social, cultural, geopolitical, there is the forgetting of the primacy of God. As Pope Benedict XVI said (on) Sept. 12, 2008, “The ‘quaerere Deum’ — ‘searching for God,’ the fact of being attentive to the essential reality of God is the central axis on which all civilization and culture is built.