Catholic Church

By Jared Staudt, Denver Catholic - The crisis challenges us and raises the question of why we are Catholic. Most of us have been born Catholic and may take our faith for granted as something we’ve inherited from our parents. We may view belonging to the Church like membership in a voluntary organization. Rather, our life as members of Christ’s Body is a gift from God that changes our identity and unites us to God and our fellow Christians. As we experience challenges to faith, it is an opportunity to embrace this identity even more strongly…

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews - A clear, recurring theme has emerged in the recent social media warnings of a U.S. Catholic bishop: “Wake up.”… In three consecutive tweets over the course of 18 hours, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas urged his fellow bishops, all Catholics, and all believers to “wake up” to the perils threatening the Church, inside and out…. “Wake up” to the disregard for life in the womb… When someone tweeted, “An expert in adult stem cell research told a San Francisco court Wednesday that fetal hearts used in research are harvested from living babies” and asked, “Where is the outrage...are we pagans?”

By JD Flynn, Catholic News Agency - While Msgr. Rossi is the subject of a canonical investigation, he has not been removed from his post at the national shrine, and neither the scope nor the timeline of the investigation have been delineated by the Archdiocese of Washington or the Diocese of Scranton.