Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - But even more prevalent these days is spiritual hunger, if not outright starvation. As is the case with physical hunger, the source of spiritual hunger is not God, who has given us abundant grace and truth; it is we who are the source. It is a strange starvation to be sure, for it is largely self-inflicted. Further, it seems to be at an advanced stage.

By Peter Wolfgang, The Stream - So a Catholic priesthood with a secret network of homosexuals who soft-peddle the Church’s teachings seems to be a real thing. But did clerical celibacy cause it? Would abolishing celibacy fix it? I don’t think so…. As the head of an ecumenical organization…. I have worked with clergy from a wide range of denominations. It is because of that experience that I disagree… First, the liberal mainline Protestant clergy is, in my experience, gayer than the Catholic priesthood.

By John Grondelski, National Catholic Register - The readings for the 14th Sunday of Ordinary Time (July 8) focus on prophets. The text from Ezekiel tells us that, whether people listen or not has nothing to do with the truth of the prophet’s message. The Gospel contains the famous line about “a prophet [being] not without honor, except in his native place.”… The prophets were not fortune tellers… but the primary focus of the Old Testament prophets’ attention was now, not the future.

By Fr. Raymond de Souza, Catholic Herald - I do not share Davis’s objection that the American bishops, as part of their annual campaign for religious liberty, are presenting Thomas More as some sort of early advocate of “tolerance” as it understood today... “The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has no right to re-appropriate his cause – not even for the sake of good PR,” writes Davis at catholicherald.co.uk. Presenting More as a martyr for anything other than “dedication to Catholic truth” is such a re-appropriation, he contends.