Catholic Church

November 27, 2018

A Pact with a Thief, a Deal with the Devil: The Vatican’s Pending Agreement with China

By Chen Guangcheng, Public Discourse - What we currently know of the agreement is that the Vatican will cede selection of bishops in China to the Communist Party. In exchange, the CCP will recognize the pope as the official head of the Catholic Church, and regular relations between the two states will be renewed... The fact that the Vatican sees these terms as an acceptable basis for reconciliation with a brutal dictatorial regime is a slap in the face to millions of Catholics and other faithful religious people in China who have suffered real persecution under the CCP....

November 27, 2018

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky: Clericalism and the Summer of Shame

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Clericalism is said to be the main sin that has given rise to the sex-abuse crisis in the Church today. The official statements blaming clericalism rather than the “dirty little secret” of a gay network have often been met with cynicism. A recent joke making the internet rounds goes: “Another priest has been dismissed from the clerical state for practicing clericalism with an adolescent boy.”

November 27, 2018

Dubia Cardinal, Bishops Defend Cdl. Müller Linking Abuse Crisis and Homosexuality

By Dr. Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews - On 21 November, LifeSiteNews published a wide-ranging interview with Cardinal Gerhard Müller… which the cardinal spoke about the abuse problem in general as related to the loss of Faith, and he pointed to the high percentage of male victims of clerical sex abuse and likewise to the problem of homosexually active priests.

November 27, 2018

LifeSiteNews: Will This Be the First American-Born Woman Martyr?

By Fr. Brian W. Harrison, O.S., LifeSiteNews - So what happened? During mid-afternoon last Monday, November 19, 2018, all seemed quiet in the Manchester Road branch of St. Louis’ main religious goods vendor, Catholic Supply. A stocky, middle-aged man walked in and noted that only three people were in the store — all women. Two were store workers, one fiftyish, the other in her twenties, and the third was a customer who had just come in. .....