Catholic Church

Fr. Mark Goring, Companions of the Cross, Catholic Charismatic Center, Director

By Br. Charles Marie Rooney, O.P., Catholic Exchange - When the going gets tough, the tough get going, or so goes the saying. In these turbulent times of ecclesial crisis, a flashback to the early days of the Catholic Church in America—days in which plenty of tough folks faced plenty of tough goings—would serve well to remind us that, even in the most dire of circumstances, God’s grace remains ever-present and efficacious in the lives of his faithful.

CNA/EWTN News - a group of young Catholics in Scotland have said in a letter about the Synod of Bishops on Young People… “Young Catholics are inspired by the heroic virtue espoused by the Church, in opposition to the cynicism and pessimism of postmodern culture. A faith that merely legitimizes the habits we would otherwise have anyway is simply not worth it,” they said… For these young Catholics, priests who proclaim orthodox Catholic teaching in its fullness with “joy and courage” are not “out of touch.”

By Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., Crisis Magazine - Pope Bergoglio himself seems willing to talk about almost every subject but his own beliefs and record. They seem most at issue. The crisis at this stage, whether we like it or not, is precisely about the present pope, what he believes and what decisions he made. It is not directly about whether Catholicism is objectively true or not. Rather it is a question of whether the Catholic Church, in its own testimony about itself, is consistent with its own teachings.