Catholic Church

June 6, 2019

“Non Serviam”: The Deadly Sin of Pride, by Anthony S. Layne

By Anthony S. Layne, Catholic Stand - “Pride — it gets ’em every time,” chortles Satan (Al Pacino) at the end of the 1997 film The Devil’s Advocate. Indeed, it does; of all the seven capital (“deadly”) sins, Superbia is the most flexible and the most elusive, attacking us in ways we hardly recognize… Pride could be called “the sin of taking yourself too seriously.” Chesterton quipped that “Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly,” while “Satan fell by the force of gravity.”

June 6, 2019

(Dear Bishops) Finish the Job, by Stephen P. White

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - As I wrote two weeks ago, Pope Francis has put in place new rules for handling allegations of sexual abuse – and of the mishandling of abuse cases – against bishops. While these new rules, laid out in the motu proprio, Vos estis lux mundi, represent a massive improvement for most of the global Church, they stop short of mandating the kind of lay involvement in the review of allegations against bishops that many in the United States have come to expect, especially in the wake of the McCarrick scandal.

June 6, 2019

“The Pill” Is Destroying Our Bodies And Everyone Is Ignoring It For Money, by Mary Margaret Olohan

By Mary Margaret Olohan, Evie Magazine - We’ve been told that birth control is one of the great inventions of our time and that we would be foolish not to take it. The truth is, we've been lied to… Birth control is sexist towards women - and it is incredibly damaging to our bodies. This is pretty ironic, considering we are always told that birth control is empowering, right? Yet even the history of birth control reveals an utter lack of respect for the dignity of women… The creation of the pill was sketchy - to say the least. Prompted by Margaret Sanger, millionaire Katherine McCormick funded studies for Harvard Professor Gregory E. Pincus; studies focused on ways in which women could prevent pregnancy without a man knowing.

June 6, 2019

Bishop Defends Brother Bishop Attacked for Telling Catholics to Not ‘Support, Attend’ LGBT Events

By Lisa Bourne, LifeSiteNews - A US bishop is defending his brother bishop who is under assault from LGBT activists and mainstream media after he told Catholics that they should have nothing to do with homosexual "pride" events… Tyler, Texas, Bishop Joseph Strickland defended Catholic principles and Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin on Twitter over the weekend after Tobin’s exhortation for Catholics to eschew homosexual "pride" events. Strickland was responding to the Boston Globe’s story on Tobin’s June 1 tweet on Catholics and gay pride events during June…. Both bishops were the targets of intense LGBT vitriol and anti-Catholic vitriol from those commenting on their tweets.