Catholic Church

By James Kalb, Crisis Magazine - The Church is presented with an opportunity. She is still what she has always been, and as long as she presents what she is, people will continue to find in her what they are missing. As Peter asked, “Where else is there to go?”… Then I noticed that then-Father Joseph Ratzinger said the same thing fifty years ago in a short radio address he presented on Christmas Day in 1969. He told his listeners: Men in a totally planned world will find themselves unspeakably lonely. If they have completely lost sight of God, they will feel the whole horror of their poverty. Then they will discover the little flock of believers as something wholly new.

By George Weigel, The Catholic World Report - Despite the global media addiction to the “liberal/conservative” trope for analyzing the Second Vatican Council and the debates following it, the really consequential division after the Council (which, as several conciliar theologians’ diaries attest, began to open up during the Council’s third and fourth periods) was between two groups of previously-allied reformist theologians, one group of which seemed determined to embrace intellectual modernity. .....

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - In this unhealthy, unbalanced situation, I have tried to establish a sane middle ground, explaining that the scandals actually reflect a failure to live out the principles of Catholic belief. Taking advantage of my independence from ecclesiastical oversight, I have sought to face the truth squarely, to be critical of individuals and especially of impostures, while remaining loyal to the Church I love….

By Patrick J. Buchanan - Baltimore in 2018 was the murder capital of America and ranked second among her most violent major cities. With St. Louis and Detroit, Baltimore is always at or near the top of the list of the most dangerous American cities… And what has Cummings, in office 28 years, done to alter that awful reputation?.. As for the presence of rats and rodents, Baltimore has competitors… There have lately been news reports of the homeless in LA and San Francisco living on city sidewalks, defecating where they sleep, attracting rodents and vermin, with little or nothing done about it.