Catholic Church

By Scott P. Richert, Crisis Magazine - We naturally feel the same pull toward partisanship and ideology as our fellow citizens, but we recognize—or should recognize—that the truth is paramount, because, for Catholics, the truth can never be separated from the Truth. The Truth is a person, not a metaphysical abstraction that can be distorted or disregarded in the pursuit of some worldly end. Every time we deliberately distort the truth for partisan or ideological reasons, every time we elevate politics over principle, we ourselves wield the whip at the scourging at the pillar....

By Catholic News Agency, EWTN News - With the launch of a federal investigation into several Catholic dioceses last week, federal prosecutor Jessie Liu has announced the opening of a hotline for victims of sexual abuse by clergy in the District of Columbia... The hotline, announced Monday, is being launched in collaboration with the Superior Court Division’s Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section and the Victim Witness Assistance Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

By Matt Gaspers, LifeSiteNews - On Saturday, October 13, I had the great privilege of processing through the streets of Rome under the banner of Our Lady of Fatima while praying the Holy Rosary with approximately 200 other devotees of the Blessed Virgin – priests, religious, and lay faithful… This occasion marked the 101st anniversary of arguably the most spectacular event since the Resurrection of Christ: the famous Miracle of the Sun at Fatima… a public prodigy of Biblical proportions promised by Our Lady three months in advance… and witnessed by some 70,000 people – believers and skeptics alike.

By Peter Howard, Spiritual Direction - October is more about revealing the solution to these revolutions because the final word on these problems was Our Blessed Mother who communicated one serious and uncompromising command that God wants of us: “Pray the Rosary” — so much does she desire this that she revealed herself at Fatima on October 13 as “The Lady of the Rosary.”