Catholic Church

January 14, 2019

John Zmirak: A Cleansing Fire Is Coming for Catholics

By John Zmirak, The Stream - At some point, Congress will cease to award massive contracts to Catholic non-profits — which last year provided the U.S. bishops with 40 percent of their budget. By law, all that money must be spent on secular purposes. Think about that. It means that 40 percent (at least) of our bishops’ activities were totally … secular… Ironically, defunding the U.S. bishops … would starve the massive bureaucracy, force the bishops to listen to laymen’s concerns — or lose donations. It would remove the financial motive for the bishops to issue 200-plus public policy statements per year. Most of all, it will take away temptations.

January 14, 2019

EWTN News: In New Letter, Archbishop Viganò Calls on McCarrick to Publicly Repent

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - I implore you, repent publicly of your sins, so as to make the Church rejoice and present yourself before the tribunal of Our Lord cleansed by His blood. Please, do not make His sacrifice on the cross void for you. Christ, Our Good Lord, continues to love you. Put your entire trust in His Sacred Heart. And pray to Mary, as I and many others are doing, asking her to intercede for the salvation of your soul.

January 14, 2019

En.News: Francis Turns Church Into Protestant Denomination

By EN.News - Pope Francis is giving authority to individual bishops and Bishops' Conferences, Cardinal Raymond Burke has noticed, “But this is not the Catholic Church.”… Burke points out that the fluid concept of synodality is relativizing the papal office and therefore constitutes “a principle of rupture rather than a development of doctrine”.

January 14, 2019

Msgr. Charles Pope: Jesus Does Not Go into the Water Alone; He Takes Us with Him – A Reflection on the Baptism of the Lord

By Msgr. Charles Pope - This Sunday’s Feast of the Baptism of the Lord is a time to reflect on not only the Lord’s Baptism but our own. In an extended sense, when Christ is baptized, so are we, for we are members of His Body. As Christ enters the water, He makes holy the water that will baptize us. He enters the water and we follow. In these waters, He acquires gifts to give us.