Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - It is important to emphasize that even if a particular sinful act does not rise to the level of mortal sin, it is still a sin. No sinful action, even if committed “innocently” will bring a blessing or become good in itself. To sin is always to veer off course and it causes some sort of wound. This is true even if the person is not guilty of committing a mortal sin.

By Fr. John A. Perricone, Crisis Magazine - North American ordinations are also in free-fall. One East Coast seminary, which hosts three major metropolitan dioceses, has a seminarian population hovering around 50—that is, 50 seminarians for more than 7.8 million Catholics. When that seminary served only one Archdiocese, it housed three hundred seminarians before 1960.... This is a collapse of historic proportions. Cause for concern, don’t you think? Might it have something to do with the precipitous decline of reverence for the Holy Eucharist?

By Bill Donohue, CNSNews - Any honest observer of the priestly sexual abuse scandal knows that the lion's share of the molestation was committed by homosexuals, not pedophiles. Now an online Washington Post article by Robert Mickens acknowledges this verity. This is virtually breaking news: the liberal media and pundits have ritualistically called this a pedophile problem.