Catholic Church

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - In particular, I was looking for an answer to the main question, as I formulated it in the previous report, “Which future for the Church?”... Would the Synod Fathers accept vague language about sexuality and synodality that could lead to anything – and probably will, as the vague formulations of Vatican II did in the 1960s and 1970s – or would they affirm not only Catholic moral teachings in a world that doesn’t understand them....

By Msgr. Charles Pope - In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe was not static but was in fact expanding outward from some point of singularity. At first his fellow scientists ridiculed his theory, labeling it with the term “the big bang.” Even as late as the 1960s I remember being taught in school that the universe was eternal and fixed. That “settled science” has since given way to the current view that the universe is expanding outward—quite rapidly, in fact.

By Christopher Altieri, Catholic Herald - The Italian dailies carried sensational headlines this morning, above reports of a gruesome find: human bone fragments discovered on Monday afternoon during the course of remodelling work inside a locale annexed to the Apostolic Nunciature to Italy… A statement from the Press Office of the Holy See on Tuesday evening acknowledged the discovery. The statement said the Corps of Gendarmes – the Vatican police – were called to the scene and promptly alerted officials in the Holy See…