Catholic Church

January 16, 2019

Twelve Things to Remember About Confession

By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Blog - Catholics are expected to go to confession at least once a year. Advent is a penitential season, and in the midst of the Christmas rush it’s a good idea to also get to confession... One of the things I love about the Catholic Church is the sacrament of confession. This is because the church gives us some very clear teaching about sin, its consequences and its remedies. The more objective we are about our sin–the more we face it squarely and honestly–the more we will be able, by God’s grace, to find the cure.

January 16, 2019

Joan Desmond: Why Didn’t Cardinal Wuerl Come Clean?

By Joan Desmond, National Catholic Register - Last week, U.S. Catholics learned that Cardinal Wuerl knew that his disgraced predecessor, Theodore McCarrick, had faced allegations of sexual misconduct with seminarians back in 2004... And when Cardinal Wuerl was accused of lying about his knowledge of McCarrick’s misbehavior, his spokesman argued last week that his public comments had been misunderstood: He had only denied prior knowledge of the allegations against McCarrick that involved minors.

January 15, 2019

Cdl. Burke: Pope Francis’ Response to Abuse Crisis is ‘More Confusing Than Anything’, by Maike Hickson

By Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews - When discussing the recent statements of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò and his own call for Pope Francis to resign, Cardinal Raymond Burke said that “whether we should go so far as to demand his [Francis'] resignation, is another question.” “But it is true,” Burke continued, “that, for classical commentators, a pope who departs from his office in dogmatic questions, that is to say, who is guilty of heresy ceases to be the Pope, automatically.”

January 15, 2019

Fr. Shenan J. Boquet: Putting the Family First

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - A pair of conservative authors writing in The Atlantic this week have highlighted the stark marriage statistics in middle-class America. “[D]ramatic increases in nonmarital childbearing, divorce, and family instability among the working class mean that only about 55 percent of children with working-class mothers will reach age 14 in a home headed by two biological parents,” they noted. Meanwhile, “only minorities of poor adults (26 percent) and working-class adults (39 percent) ages 18 to 55 are married.”