Catholic Church

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine - Have most of us suffered to help save the Church in the manner Bishop Strickland does? Don’t we all—or at least most of us—share a portion of the guilt in the dark state of our Church? I know that I do. Why? I do not believe I am holy, even though our Lord demands it of me. Just as an example, when you awakened to the news Saturday morning, how many of you thought to begin a Rosary for Bishop Strickland’s state of mind before racing to share the first clever Tweet or to watch that first podcast that condemned the pope? Did you stake your claim against that ridiculous thread of the left-of-center theological dilettante? Did you interiorly cuss that ideological demagogue and Strickland-hater?

By Peter J. Leithart, First Things - Hospitality isn’t just what we receive or what we do. Hospitality is what we are. The church exists to invite those who are still exiled in Adam to share the table of the Father through Jesus his Son. Our life together is a life of welcome to neighbors, friends, and brothers and sisters in Christ—but also to strangers, to outcasts, to the forgotten. We keep the feast for the sake of the world, so the Father’s hospitality will not vanish from the earth.

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - The morning’s news of Pope Francis removing the bishop of Tyler – Bishop Joseph Strickland – has made international waves and caused instant outrage amongst Catholics, in a fallout, the scale of which, has likely taken even the Vatican by surprise.