Catholic Church

June 17, 2019

Msgr. Charles Pope: One and One and One Are One – A Homily for Trinity Sunday

By Msgr. Charles Pope - on the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity, we do well to remember that we are pondering a mystery that cannot fit in our minds… A mystery, though, is not something wholly unknown. In the Christian tradition, the word “mystery” refers (among other things) to something that is partially revealed, something much more of which remains hidden. Thus, as we ponder the Trinity, consider that although there are some things we can know by revelation, much more is beyond our understanding.

June 17, 2019

Interview: Steve Bannon: Crisis in the Church Will Worsen, Laity Needs to Act, by Edward Pentin

By Edward Pentin - What power does the laity have?... First off, number one, I think you’ve got to cut off the money. The donors have to cut off. If they won’t listen, if you don’t have these committees that are trying to engage, then they will listen to one thing, and that is if you cut off the money. That means you directly give to the building or whatever is in your parish to make sure that your parish continues to thrive, but you cut off any giving that would go to a diocese and back to Rome.

June 17, 2019

‘A Form of Killing That We Need to Be Able to Defend’, by Amy K. Hall

By Amy K. Hall, The Stream - Feminist Sophie Lewis has a series of videos promoting her new book, Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, and this clip caught my eye… “We have very little to lose at the moment when it comes to abortion, and I’m interested in winning radically. And I wonder if we could think about defending abortion as a right to stop doing gestational work… Abortion is, in my opinion — and I recognize how controversial this is — a form of killing. It is a form of killing that we need to be able to defend… I am not interested in where a human life starts to exist. I see the forms of making and unmaking each other as, sort of, continuous processes.”

June 17, 2019

Bishop Paprocki Calls on Catholic Politicians to Take Sides, by John M. Grondelski (Watch interview)

By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine - Thomas Paprocki, the bishop of Springfield (the state capital of Illinois), has issued a decree barring the Illinois State Senate President and House Speaker—both ostensibly Catholics—from receiving Communion in the diocese. The June 2 decision took place in response to enactment of abortion legislation codifying in state law an unlimited abortion liberty through birth, in the event that Roe et al. v. Wade was judicially modified. Paprocki’s decree also states that Illinois Catholic legislators who voted for the bill should also not receive Communion until they first are “reconciled to Christ and the Church.”