Catholic Church

By Diane Montagna, LifeSiteNews - For the homosexual lobby and the UN, “‘LGBT’ = ‘sexual orientation’,” a source said… The term “sexual orientation” appears three times in the final document draft. In the first instance, the document says young people want openly to discuss “sexual orientation” and homosexuality… It also calls for a deepened anthropology, theology and pastoral care, but never references Pope John Paul II’s extensive analysis on human sexuality, Theology of the Body.

By Fr. Richard Heilman, Roman Catholic Man - This is an URGENT call for prayer to the Holy Spirit to cover the November 2018 meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops... From November 6th through the end of the US Bishops’ meeting on November 14th  we ask that the Novena to the Holy Spirit (below) be prayed in order for the Holy Spirit to guide the US Bishops in their discussions and decisions for the continued purification of the Church.

By Eric Shearer, Catholic Exchange - People have contemplated this for many years. If you are a Christian, the answer is an easy one: God started the process. He’s the one who began it all. The very first passage of the Bible starts with this: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Gen 1:1)... But to this, many might raise a dilemma. “If everything must have a creator,” they say, “then who created God?”

By Fr. Ed Broom, OMV, Catholic Exchange - When confronted with the reality of suffering most of us cringe from it, recoil, or even run away from it. We want to flee to some special corner where we believe that we will be exempt from the reality of suffering. However, this is not possible. Whether we like it or not suffering is an inevitable part of the human condition—our fallen condition as a result of Original Sin.