Catholic Church

By Stephen Wynne, ChurchMilitant - Titled "'Dear Troubled Catholics': Church needs spiritual renewal," the reflection began with Bp. Rice's direct observations. "I, along with all those who love the Church, am dismayed, disgusted, and numbed when I think of those who have been harmed by (McCarrick’s) behavior," he said. "While I would rather not address the situation publicly, to not address it is to stick my head in the sand."… Looking ahead, Martin described the Church as embarking on "a radical purification under the chastising hand of God…. As Pope Benedict XVI wrote when he was a young priest," he reflected, "the Church will have to become smaller and more purified before it can again be a light to the world."….

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Revelations about the Church leadership in several countries and in the Vatican itself have led us to the point that we wonder whether we can still trust what our own religious leaders say and do. To judge by what I hear from Catholic leaders and lay people, our bishops need to wake up to the sheer magnitude and intensity of the anger out there. Fast… Trust is binary. Our bishops can no longer assume that they have it. Bishops here may be teetering very close to the point at which the Irish hierarchy lost its credibility, to the immense detriment of marriage, family, and the unborn.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The Gospel this Sunday amounts to a summons to faith by Jesus. He is summoning us to faith in Himself and in the truth He proclaims about His presence in the Holy Eucharist. Last week’s Gospel ended with Jesus declaring that He was the bread come down from Heaven. This Sunday’s Gospel opens with His Jewish listeners grumbling because He claims to have come from Heaven. Throughout the Gospel Jesus stands firm in His call to faith; He teaches them of the necessity of faith, its origins, and its fruits.

By Claire Chretien, LifeSiteNews - George Neumayr, author of The Political Pope: How Pope Francis Is Delighting the Liberal Left and Abandoning Conservatives...  had strong words for Cupich and Washington’s Cardinal Donald Wuerl, (who) recently said the U.S. bishops should investigate themselves.... “These charlatans don’t need a new bureaucratic panel; they need an exorcist,” he wrote on Facebook.