Catholic Church

By Fr. Edward Looney, Catholic Exchange - I recommend visiting the graves of our loved ones often to those who experienced the loss of a parent, sibling, child, or friend.  Doing so is quite biblical.  Jesus visited the tomb of Lazarus, only to call him out and raise him from the dead.  On the morning of the Resurrection, Mary Magdalene was on her way to the tomb of Jesus to pay her respects, when she discovered the empty tomb

By Lisa Bourne, LifeSiteNews - The U.S. Church has a serious problem with negligent bishops in the clergy sex abuse crisis, and Pope Francis must act… “I think that Archbishop Viganò responding to Cardinal Ouellet has said very eloquently what’s at stake here,” Murray told Arroyo, and said that Viganò’s testimony may have been lost in the news on the Synod and other things… “We have a serious problem in the United States with negligence by bishops concerning priests who committed sexual abuse,” Murray said.

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - the Dominican archbishop (Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney, Australia) praises the will of those involved to bring young people closer to Christ and his Church, the general mood of the meeting, and the contributions of the young auditors… But he also highlights what he sees as weaknesses, including a “disappointing” diffidence about the Church’s moral teaching, an unwillingness to provide translations, and that almost all of the synod fathers felt “shut down” from speaking after they had given their interventions (speeches)…

By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald - Two great resources that we have at our disposal are Fides et Ratio and Veritatis Splendor, both encyclicals of Saint John Paul II. Both are calls to humanity to realise that subjectivity is not the last word; there is objective moral truth and that objective truth that we can reach through reason. Both offer opposition to what Benedict XVI so memorably termed the dictatorship of relativism – the absolute (and self-contradictory) belief that all beliefs are subjective.