Catholic Church

By Kevin Jones, CNA/EWTN News - How can Catholics respond to young people’s questions and concerns about faith, science, and modern problems?.. Father Robert Spitzer, S.J. thinks a new educational series called Credible Catholic can help... “The problem of faith and science and evidence is really significant. Just invest a couple hours of your time and you’ll improve not just the faith of your children, not just their sense of transcendent dignity… at the same time they’re going to be a lot happier.”

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - Of all the testimony against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the most heartbreaking has come from a now-60-year-old man who was baptized by the abusive cleric. Known only as “James,” the New Jersey native now has a message for anyone keeping the Cardinal’s dirty secrets: “...What is so important that you are afraid to lose? Why do you believe that you are more important than so many other lives? Why can’t you just let us all know what you know?

By Jennifer Hartline, The Stream - A clean house should never be considered an unreasonable expectation. Especially when the House is the Church… Yeah, Catholic hierarchy, I’m talking to you now. My house isn’t the only filthy one in need of a deep cleaning… I’m speaking as a lay Catholic woman and a mother: Patience and benefit of the doubt are all spent, all gone. You get no more. You have utterly failed to preserve the trust of the faithful whom you are supposed to serve and shepherd… You have befriended the wolf (actually, you’re sleeping with him) and allowed him free roam in the House for decades now, and his excrement is in every corner... How many more “Uncle Ted’s” are there??

Catholic World News - When he promulgated this ritual in 1862, Pope Benedict obviously felt that it was necessary. He envisioned the possibility that a bishop could disgrace himself so thoroughly, and abuse his office so blatantly, that the Holy See would have no choice but to remove him. Such a bishop would not be allowed to resign quietly "for reasons of health;" he would not be transferred to a titular see in the Sahara; he would not be "promoted" to a meaningless desk job at the Vatican. He would be stripped of his office and--the word is so beautifully expressive--"degraded."