Catholic Church

By Jennifer Hartline, Crisis Magazine - Good and loving fathers do not welcome predators into the family home. Good and loving fathers do not provide shelter to men guilty of rape and sexual abuse. Good and loving fathers do not honor men who prey on the children. Good and loving fathers do not promote men who manipulate the vulnerable children for their own gain... On the contrary, a good and loving father would have the predator thrown out in the street to be trampled under horses’ hooves. He would ensure the vile snake never saw a glimmer of daylight again. He would tear his garments at the violation of his daughters and sons, and his anger would be fierce.

By Bishop Marian Eleganti, LifeSiteNews - The letter of the synod participants repeats ad nauseam the known and widely repeated slogans, which in the end become meaningless because of their generality, especially if they are measured against the generated expectations. They do not bring clarity to any of the burning questions. The Church continues to be systematically eroded from within. The latter is intentional because one wants to break up its previous structures and soften its traditional modus operandi (through the priestly powers).

By Christopher R. Altieri, Catholic World Report - A disgraced former Jesuit accused of heinous sexual, psychological, and spiritual abuse allegedly perpetrated against well more than a dozen victims – most of them women religious – over some three decades, Fr. Marko Rupnik, is now a priest of Koper diocese in his native Slovenia... Koper’s vicar general told The Pillar that Bishop Bishop Jurij Bizjak agreed to give Rupnik a chance since “Rupnik had not been sentenced to any judicial sentence.”

By Joseph Pearce, EWTN News - Stumbling upon the works of G.K. Chesterton and then C.S. Lewis, I discovered two writers who showed that reason points to faith. They were not merely being logical in their reasoning, they were being logical in their discussion of the theological. Chesterton and Lewis led me deeper, or further up and further in as Lewis would say. They led me to the great philosophers, such as Plato,