Catholic Church

By Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.. The Catholic Thing - Thus, when we “waste” our time with our friends, we mean that we do not want to be anywhere else. I suppose “eternal life” itself can be understood in this way also – the not wanting to be anywhere else, the no longer being “wayfarers and pilgrims” in this world. The only time that counts is the time we waste with our friends.

By John Grondelski, EWTN News - In this anniversary year of Humanae vitae, a lot… Humanae vitae presupposed a lot of things. A certain understanding of the human person. A certain understanding of natural law. A certain understanding of the Church as moral Teacher… And a certain spirituality. A spirituality of trust in Divine Providence… The openness to life that Humanae vitae (and Catholicism at large) teaches means several things.

By Claire Chretien, LifeSiteNews - The more than 3,000-word article features, for the first time, the testimony of one of two known recipients of a settlement from the Church over McCarrick's abuse. Both are former priests. The piece notes that one of the challenges to stopping predator clerics is that sexually assaulting an adult is not considered a canonical “crime” like abusing children is – and that it was McCarrick who helped draft the bishops’ policy on protecting “children and young people,” which contains “no procedures for holding bishops accountable other than ‘fraternal correction’ by fellow bishops.”