Catholic Church

By Joannie Watson, Integrated Catholic - Last week, we looked at the concept of a sacramental world view. A sacramental worldview perceives the mysteries of God hidden in material creation. It sees the material world not as something to be rejected or from which to be released, but as a channel of God’s grace and as the arena in and through which God acts... God uses the material world to save us. He not only took on human flesh and blood to save us, he also used things like water and mud to heal people. He didn’t have to do this.

By Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., The Stream - We might as well call it the Perverted Priest Problem. Some men of homosexual inclinations are using their place within the Catholic Church to gratify themselves sexually. More disgusting than Cardinal McCarrick’s behavior is the widespread network of prelates who must have been covering for him. But even these men aren’t the whole story... The very day the news about Cardinal McCarrick broke, the Vatican released the working document for the upcoming Synod on Youth.  It used the “LGBT” acronym, the first such use in a Vatican document. This shows that high-ranking prelates are running interference for people like McCarrick.

By Ralph Martin. Renewal Ministries - What has been so disturbing to so many people is the fact that there had been numerous warnings to various church officials that he was a homosexual predator, harassing many seminarians, priests, and young boys, for many years, but nothing had ever been done about it, and he was continually promoted. Even after a delegation of priests and lay people went to Rome to warn the Vatican about the situation, he was promoted.... Now this refusal to acknowledge the “homosexual lobby,” as Pope Benedict termed it, is coming home to roost.

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine - We may have gotten worse bishops than we deserved, but not much worse; we certainly have not deserved good and wise and holy bishops, because we have not been a good and wise and obedient flock. It is time to see to our own corners of the bog. McCarrick was not only the cause of misery. He was a product of it and a symptom of it. For someone who contributed his or her share to the cause, look in the mirror... It is time to get to work, cleaning.