Catholic Church

By K. Albert Little, Patheos - Of all the new things—the hidden treasures—I learned about on my journey into the Catholic Church, this was one of the things I was most excited about when I first read about it. This was something I couldn’t wait to experience… the Catholic Church believes, derived from history, tradition, and Scripture, that Jesus is actually present in the Eucharistic elements.

By Edward Peters, JD, JCD, Ref. Sig. Ap. - Most Catholics correctly, but incompletely, understand schism as “the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff” (1983 CIC 751). Overlooked here—perhaps because it is much rarer than is typical ‘anti-papal schism’ and is harder to spot when it does occur—is the second kind of schism, namely, “the refusal … of communion with the members of the Church subject to him”

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - Is blacklisting racist?.. Or is whitelisting racist? (That’s when someone is taken off a blacklist.)... Or perhaps it is everything. Everything is racist: starting and ending with the people you disagree with (on any subject at all)... This fairly straightforward, anti-antifa thought occurred to me this week when a reader of my “Essays in Idleness” website, out in the Canadian west, found it blocked.

By Steve Jordahl, OneNewsNow - The bishops claim that they do not have the authority to discipline each other – and insist that such discipline has to come from Rome… (Phil Lawler of Catholic World News) conceded that this may be true – under canonical law… “But they could police each other,” he contended. “They could demand accountability from each other, and they have not done that – and that chicken is coming home to roost big time now.”