Catholic Church

By John Zmirak, a Senior Editor, The Stream - A Time to Prune - In order to root out the gay subculture which clearly commands some of the highest echelons of the Church, bishops will have to get much, much stricter, and implement Benedict XVI’s ban on gay seminarians… Without organized, relentless financial pressure from faithful laymen, I don’t see bishops making the kind of drastic reforms we need… Think of it as setting a small, contained forest fire to stop a much bigger conflagration. If we can’t put out the flames, within our lifetime the American Church could be a vast field of ashes, relieved only by all the millstones.

By Allison Low, The Catholic Stand - A life without goals risks losing its meaning and purpose. If we do not have something we are aiming for, then life can easily become like a broken compass that just spins without direction. We may find our self in stagnation, boredom or complacency. Lacking goals, we can be tempted to make decisions based merely on whims or desires rather than on considering what is best to achieve our highest potential. But if we set goals, especially ones that excite us, not only are we more determined and happier, we are even willing to make great sacrifices to achieve them.

By Fr. Dwight Longenecker - In our drive to stop climate change, help immigrants and set up more soup kitchens have we so completely forgotten the core of the Christian message?... Now at last we can see a little silver lining on this dark McCarrick cloud… The silver lining is this: clergymen are angry about sin again. We’re all angry. We’re spitting angry. We’re fed up.. But I think we’re also angry because at last people are starting to see that sin is bad. Its bad because it hurts people. We’re angry because little boys have been raped and their lives destroyed….

By Fr Raymond de Souza, Catholic Herald - Veritatis Splendor rejected at length the objections that Paul VI faced in his time, namely that in teaching the truth about the moral law, the Church was lacking in compassion and in respect for freedom... “Genuine understanding and compassion must mean love for the person, for his true good, for his authentic freedom,” wrote John Paul in Veritatis Splendor. “And this does not result, certainly, from concealing or weakening moral truth, but rather proposing it in its most profound meaning.”