Catholic Church

February 13, 2019

Sins of Omission: The Abusive PA Clergy Abuse Report, by Paul Kengor

By Paul Kengor, Crisis Magazine - “All” of these victims, the report declares, “were brushed aside, in every part of the state, by church leaders who preferred to protect the abusers and their institutions above all.” Or as the introduction to the report sums it up, “Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all.”… Peter Steinfels, of the Commonweal… gets right to the heart of the matter, asking: “Is that true?” The answer, of course, is no, as is clear to anyone who reads beyond the irresponsible introduction and who only read media accounts.

February 13, 2019

Spokane’s Plain-Spoken Shepherd Makes Waves, by Joan Frawley Desmond

By Joan Frawley Desmond, EWTN News - When Father Bob Dunn read the headlines sparked by his friend Spokane Bishop Tom Daly’s strong corrective for Catholic politicians who promote abortion rights, the New York City priest told his friends, “This is the type of witness we need.”… “Politicians who reside in the Catholic Diocese of Spokane, and who obstinately persevere in their public support for abortion, should not receive Communion without first being reconciled to Christ and the Church,” Bishop Thomas Daly wrote… “Efforts to expand access to abortion, allowing murder of children up to the moment of birth, is evil… For a Catholic political leader to do so is scandalous.”

February 12, 2019

Maike Hickson: Bishops Applaud Cardinal Müller for ‘Prophetic’ Manifesto of Faith

By Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews - At least three bishops so far are publicly supporting Cardinal Gerhard Müller after he issued a “Manifesto of Faith” on Friday in the hope of clearing up the growing doctrinal confusion in the Church... Bishops Joseph Strickland, Thomas Tobin, and Marian Eleganti all expressed their gratitude to Cardinal Müller, the former head of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, for reaffirming the essential tenets of our Catholic Faith... “Thank God for Cardinal Müller's strength and fidelity to Christ and his Teaching,” says Bishop Strickland.

February 12, 2019

Fr. Mike Schmitz: How Does God Restore Us? (Video)

Fr. Mike Schmitz, Ascension Presents - Fr. Mike explains how God restores our brokenness, especially when it comes to our bodies. So often, we find that the more precious a thing is, the more fragile it is. And when something precious is broken, we often think it’s become worthless. Like when we break a fragile teacup, we throw it away because it no longer has value. But that’s not the way it is with our bodies. God created us to be temples of the Holy Spirit, something very precious. But we’re not like fragile teacups.