Catholic Church

January 7, 2019

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Friendly Fire

By Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, First Things - When I was in Rome to cover the synod last October, I was surprised at how factional the thinking in the synod office—and in the Vatican communications offices—had become. They spoke openly not about critics on this or that issue, but about “enemies of the pope.” Entire networks and newspapers and news agencies, filled with professional, competent, and devoutly Catholic journalists, were denounced as lacking fidelity to the Church…

January 7, 2019

Beverly Stevens: The Dark Road Ahead

By Beverly Stevens, Regina Editor, Regina Magazine - In this wide-ranging interview, REGINA interviews Cathy about what’s actually happening, how law enforcement views the recent maneuvers of bishops; what authorities are uncovering in the Church by mapping predators and tracking their travel; how victims are targeted and the lifelong suffering they endure; and the uses of gaslighting, priestly predator networks and how they operate. ...

January 7, 2019

The Time Has Come for A New Counter-Reformation

By Duncan G. Stroik, Crisis Magazine - We need a new Counter-Reformation in sacred art and architecture. What was the Reformation’s effect? First, it preached iconoclasm, the rejection of the human figure in religious art. Second, it reoriented worship, so that people gathered round the pulpit rather than the altar and the baptismal font became more important than the tabernacle....

January 7, 2019

Catholics Launch Appeal Urging World’s Bishops to Break Silence on Crisis Under Pope Francis

By Diane Montagna, LifeSiteNews - A prominent group of Catholic laity are calling on bishops and priests to break their silence surrounding the “homosexual networks” in the Church’s hierarchy, which many believe are at the “root” of the clerical sexual abuse crisis to be discussed next month at the Vatican… the president of the Rome-based Lepanto Foundation, Italian historian Professor Roberto de Mattei, is urging Catholic bishops and priests to abandon “the path of absolute silence” about the moral and doctrinal crisis in the Church…