Catholic Church

August 7, 2018

Bishop: Lay Faithful, Not Bishops, Must Investigate McCarrick and Coverup

By Peter Jesserer Smith, National Catholic Register - (I)n an exclusive interview with the National Catholic Reporter… Cardinal Wuerl proposed that a panel or board of bishops, coming from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, investigate rumors of a bishop committing sexual abuse. Such a board would not pass judgment on the accused bishop, but send the information on to Rome… This afternoon, Bishop Edward Scharfenberger of the Diocese of Albany, who had a priest sexually molested by ex-Cardinal McCarrick, sent a public message to the entire U.S. episcopacy that indicated clearly Cardinal Wuerl’s solution — bishops investigating bishops — would have zero credibility with the People of God.

August 7, 2018

If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - St. John Paul II had the penchant, not really surprising in someone of great holiness and intellectual stature, of articulating the foundations for matters that actually came before him in time… In fact, all of the creative power of John Paul II’s teaching seems to have been the fruit of his deliberate intention, reflected in the name he took, of making himself a servant of his predecessors and of the tradition. A wise steward in the Kingdom of God will inevitably bring forth something new if he aims above all to illumine the old...

August 7, 2018

What Does it Take to Be Human? On the Genetic Modifications of Embryos

By Bob Kurland, Catholic Stand - The quote below from the Charter for Health Care Workers, Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance says it all: “No social or scientific usefulness and no ideological purpose could ever justify an intervention on the human genome unless it be therapeutic, that is its finality must be the natural development of the human being.”

August 7, 2018

Why Don’t the Priests Blow the Whistle?

By Rev. Fr. Edwin Palka, Pastor, Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church - With that as my premise, let me explain why few “good” priests and bishops will openly challenge their brother priests and bishops when it comes to this particular sin. Next week, perhaps, I will take it a step further and write about why even priests who have left the active ministry (mostly to get married) cannot and will not come forward with what they know, with what quite often drove them out of ministry in the first place....