Catholic Church

By Steve Skojec, OnePeterFive - For people who were not subject to the kind of vocational pressure the Legionaries produced, what Morris is doing (and my sympathy for it) likely doesn’t make much sense. But it is critical to understand that the Legionaries were merciless in their recruitment techniques. They laid on the guilt so thick, and in my personal experience, they played on my scruples and my desire to do God’s will to such a degree that I wound up spending probably half a dozen years in a state of near constant anguish. And after I left, they backstabbed me and tried to destroy my reputation.

By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli, The Washington Post - In the instant he became one of the most controversial figures in modern Catholic Church history, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò went dark… The retired Vatican ambassador to Washington wrote a bombshell letter last summer calling on Pope Francis to resign on the grounds that he had tolerated a known sexual abuser. As that letter was published, Viganò turned off his phone, told friends he was disappearing, and let the church sort through the fallout… Nine months later, in his first extended interview since that moment… comments indicate that, even in hiding, he is maintaining his role as the fiercest critic of the Francis era…

By Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews - Gänswein argued that the Church's task – and thus the task of all Christians – is to stand up “stronger and more courageously” for the truth of the Faith which once had helped build the German Federal Republic's legal system that has provided an “unprecedented peace under the law.”… “We can speak with the majority,” he explained, “only when it is about the truth, and otherwise we must witness to the truth while being in contradiction.”... Christians can make a contribution “for another truth, for another viewpoint, for an alternative concept of the essence of man,” in the midst of “relativism or the rejection of religious truths.”