Catholic Church

By ChurchPOP Editor - First, Archbishop Sheen dispels myths about what the Anti-Christ will look like. “The Anti-Christ will not be so called, otherwise he would have no followers… “Rather,” Archbishop Sheen explains, “is he described as an angel fallen from heaven, as ‘the Prince of this world,’ whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil.”

By K. Albert Little, Patheos - The news of the sexual abuse scandal out of Pennsylvania has rocked the global Catholic Church to its core. The findings of the Grand Jury report, along with the sheer number of victims and perpetrators, is nothing short of shocking. The immense cover up is almost unfathomable… Words do not do justice…

By James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing - In today’s cockeyed world, for reasons obvious to everyone but the morally obtuse (of whom a goodly supply seems available, present company not necessarily excluded), Psalm 51 is worth recalling. The most famous of the four Penitential Psalms, its context is the prayer before the prophet Nathan when David acknowledges his most famous sin. He does not presume that sin is impossible or something he “might” commit in some vague future.

By John-Henry Westen, LifeSiteNews - Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana Kazakhstan, has released an eight-item to-do list of what he says is required to reform the Church steeped in crisis in the wake of credible revelations of corruption and cover-up by Pope Francis. After saying there is “no reasonable and plausible cause to doubt the truth content of the document of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò,” Bishop Schneider suggests needed actions to renew the Church.