Catholic Church

November 24, 2018

Steve Skojec: It’s a Runaway Train, and the Devil Is Driving

By Steve Skojec, OnePeterFive Blog - Even within the resistance to what is being perpetrated against our beloved Holy Mother Church, there is an increasing factionalization. Conspiracy theories deepen and distract and divide us as we become fixated on ways to make sense of what is going on and how to fix it. Bitterness and divisions set in, even over petty things. There is a seeming intractability, a hardening of positions that leads to endless, circular arguments about things we ultimately cannot change.

November 24, 2018

George Weigel: Vatican Autocracy and the U.S. Bishops

By George Weigel, Denver Catholic - What happened to the “synodality” and “collegiality” that were supposed to characterize the Church under Pope Francis? What conceivable meaning of “synodality” or “collegiality” includes an autocratic Roman intervention in the affairs of a national bishops’ conference that knows its own situation far better than the Roman authorities? And spare me the further excuses about Roman concerns over canon law.

November 24, 2018

McCarrick’s Online Footprint Suggests He Was Deeply Involved in Doing Pope’s Bidding

By Dr. Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal McCarrick had been an important prelate for the Vatican when dealing with inter-religious matters or foreign affairs.. McCarrick played an important role in the establishment of relations between the U.S. and Cuba. Additionally, McCarrick helped in the Vatican's dealings with Iran and its talks with the U.S. on nuclear proliferation… And in the matter of the Vatican/China deal — what Cardinal Zen said amounted to a betrayal of the Chinese people — McCarrick also seems to have had a hand in it. As Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò revealed in his own 25 August testimony, then-Cardinal McCarrick told him once in person that, after meeting Pope Francis, he was to go to Communist China.

November 21, 2018

The Final Confrontation! Are We “Ready to Give Up Even Our Lives”?

By Fr. C. John McCloskey III, The Catholic Thing - What are we to do? First, of course, do not despair. As Catholics we live this life looking forward to the next. We can’t lose, for as St. Paul put it, for us death is gain, not something to fear... How then to confront and combat the Anti-Church? Imitate the lives of the first Christians! Consider this justly famous description of Christians in the anonymous “Letter to Diognetus,” written in 79 A.D.....