Catholic Church

October 6, 2018

Caggiano: Youth Synod Bishops Must Address Sexual Abuse Crisis

Catholic News Agency - During his Oct. 4 speech at the 2018 Synod of Bishops, Bishop Frank Caggiano of Bridgeport said that the Church must “continue to directly address the issue of the sexual abuse of minors and youth by clerics in many regions of the world.”.. “It is a both a crime and a sin that has undermined the confidence and trust that young people must have in the Church’s leaders and the Church as an institution, so that they may again trust their priests and bishops to exercise true spiritual fatherhood, serve as adult figures in their lives, and as authentic mentors of faith.”

October 6, 2018

Vatican’s Former Doctrine Chief: Pope is Not ‘Boss of the Church,’ Can’t Change Doctrine

By Dorothy Cummings McLean - Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the Vatican’s former doctrinal chief, told EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo that both Pope Francis and the Synod cannot change the doctrine of the Church... Cardinal Müller, the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) told Arroyo on “The World Over” last night that Pope Francis’ “friends” may have “a strange idea that the doctrine of the Church is too hard” but that neither they nor the pope can do anything to change it... “The Pope is not the boss of the Church,” Müller said. “The Pope cannot do [whatever] he wants.”

October 6, 2018

Archbishop Chaput to Youth Synod: Developed Nations Stuck in a ‘Moral Adolescence’

Catholic News Agency - While the idea of being “forever young” can seem appealing, the underdevelopment of morality is a problem in developed nations, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia told the Synod of Bishops Thursday... The answer to this problem is Christ, whom the Church must present more strongly and confidently to young people, he noted in his second intervention to the assembly Oct. 4.

October 6, 2018

Paul Kengor: John Paul II’s Warning on ‘Final Confrontation’ With the ‘Anti-Church’

By Paul Kengor National Catholic Register - In (1976)… Cardinal Karol Wojtyla stated: “We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. I do not think that wide circles of the American society or wide circles of the Christian community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-Church, of the Gospel versus the anti-Gospel….”… It seems more likely now, in 2018, that we are indeed facing the greatest historical confrontation humanity has gone through. And the Church and its foes — the anti-Church — are at the center of the battle.