Catholic Church

By Daniel Burke, EWTN News - St. Albert the Great was considered the “wonder and the miracle of his age” by his contemporaries. He was an assiduous Dominican whose accomplishments and gifts to the Church would be difficult to exaggerate... Born around 1206 and joining the Order of Preachers in 1223, Albert quickly became a master of almost every academic subject. Notwithstanding the standards of his own time, he became a pioneer of the natural sciences — both empirical and philosophical. His teachings on nature and theology were revolutionary, and he captured the attention of a young and taciturn Dominican — St. Thomas Aquinas.

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - “Communio lived in conversatio,” Bishop Daniel Flores, bishop of Brownsville, Texas, continues, “is already an expression of the Mission of the Church since we are called to be an anticipatory sign of the tribes, nations and tongues gathered around the heavenly throne of the Lamb who was slain.”... If there is a version of synodality that the American bishops might enthusiastically embrace, this is it: theologically precise, recognizably Catholic in ecclesiology, rooted in Scripture and Tradition, and expressed in missionary zeal marked by truth and love.

By Calvin, Freiburger, LifeSiteNews - The USCCB voted 225-11 on Wednesday to approve an “introductory note” to affirm that opposing abortion must remain the “preeminent priority” of Catholics in American elections... While not significantly changing the previous abortion message, the vote represents a victory over proposed language that would have reduced abortion from “our preeminent priority” to simply “a preeminent priority” (emphasis added). ...

By Msgr. Richard C. Antall, Crisis Magazine - The bishops, as brothers in the episcopate, should not be afraid to address the misperceptions of the nuncio or of the Holy Father. I vainly hope that some bishops might even voice some solidarity with Bishop Strickland, but I am afraid that intimidation is very real and the article in America is a shot across the bow. Lord have mercy on us all.