Catholic Church

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - Monsignor Charles Pope wrote on social media: Santo Padre, I'm not feeling the love here, I don't feel accompanied by you. Make room in your heart for me and others like me. I am not a young priest, but I know you don't like my type of priesthood. Further I am an American and this mere fact seems to also make me troublesome in your eyes… Meanwhile I must honestly and painfully say that I am wearied from being scorned and demonized by you.

By Kevin Birnbaum, Catholic News Service - Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne said he will not live in the 9,000-square-foot mansion that many of his predecessors called home… “I prefer to live a more simplified life,” he explained… The property has an appraised value of $8.4 million, according to the King County Department of Assessments… “The house doesn’t represent who I am,” Etienne said… “I think the days of bishops living in a manner that’s a lot nicer than the majority of their people live, those days are gone, and they should be.”

By Fr. George W. Rutler, Crisis Magazine - In 1789 George Washington prayed in St. Paul’s Church, on what we now call lower Broadway, on the day of his inauguration as the first president of the United States. The churchyard was already old. On September 11, 2001, several new corpses were lying on the old graves. Then quickly a temporary morgue was set up in a nearby hotel. All that the Founding Fathers stood for was contradicted in a thunderous attack on the heart of the city that calls itself the capital of the world.

By Fr. Mark Goring, Published on Sep 11, 2019