Catholic Church

September 4, 2019

Cdl. Sarah: Amazon Synod Would ‘Definitively Break’ With Tradition in Allowing Married Priests, Female Ministries

By Jeanne Smits, LifeSiteNews - African Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, wrote in his most recent book that if the upcoming Amazon synod allowed priestly ordination of married men and fabricated “ministries for women and other such incongruities,” the situation would be “extremely serious” on account of the synod fathers breaking with Catholic teaching and tradition… “If by a lack of faith in God and by an effect of pastoral short-sightedness the Synod for the Amazon were to decide on the ordination of viri probati, the fabrication of ministries for women and other such incongruities, the situation would be extremely serious,” he wrote.

September 4, 2019

Disgraced Cardinal McCarrick Blames Conservatives for the Dozens of ‘Credible’ Sexual Assault Allegations Against Him

By Mary Margaret Olohan, The Stream - “I’m not as bad as they paint me,” McCarrick said in an interview with Slate’s Ruth Graham published Tuesday. “I do not believe that I did the things that they accused me of.”… The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith declared McCarrick guilty in February of “solicitation in the Sacrament of Confession, and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power,” according to a Vatican statement. Pope Francis also defrocked him.

September 4, 2019

Catholic School Removes ‘Harry Potter’ From Library, by Christine Rousselle

By Christine Rousselle, CNA - A priest and a Catholic author talked with CNA about the series and the Catholic faith… “These books present magic as both good and evil, which is not true, but in fact a clever deception,” Father Dan Reehil, pastor at St. Edward School in Nashville, said to parents in an Aug. 28 email… “The curses and spells used in the books are actual curses and spells, which, when read by a human being, risk conjuring evil spirits into the presence of the person reading the text,” the priest added.

September 3, 2019

Profiles of Pope Francis’ New Cardinals, by Edward Pentin

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - Pope Francis unexpectedly named 13 new cardinals on Sunday, choices that have again revealed his wish for the Church to go out to the peripheries and the developing world… But they also reveal Churchmen supportive of other issues close to his heart including open migration policies, concern for the environment and populism, a diplomatic rather than realist stance toward Islam, and sympathies for those supportive of homosexual issues.