Catholic Church

By CNA/EWTN News - EWTN Global Catholic Network announced Friday that Daniel Burke has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of EWTN News, Inc. Burke has been until now Executive Director of EWTN’s National Catholic Register.

These horrific crimes have cost the thousands of victims more than we can imagine. But how much has this homosexual culture cost the Catholic Church? Obviously, its reputation has suffered greatly. But lay people who give their tithes and offerings must be appalled that, rather than feeding the hungry or providing other ministerial needs, the Church is attempting to compensate victims for the damage done by priests — to the tune of $3 billion.

By Fr. Wojciech Giertych, O.P., Catholic Exchange - When contemplative prayer, with its persistence in faith and charity focused on God, is practiced regularly, this has an impact on liturgical prayer. One may regularly exercise silent faith before God and also return from time to time to the prayer of meditation, in particular when it turns out that silent prayer stops being an encounter with God and becomes only indulging in daydreaming.

By Fr. John A. Perricone, Crisis Magazine - At the beginning of time a snake slithered into a Garden called Eden. He entered quietly and quite unobtrusively, as is his wont. And he wreaked havoc on the human race... That same serpent slithered into the supernatural Garden of Eden, which is the Holy Catholic Church, in the waning years of the nineteenth century. Again, unnoticed and blending quite naturally into the human landscape. This Ancient Serpent had oft-times crawled into the sacred precincts of Holy Church since that first entre.