Catholic Church

June 14, 2018

Opinion: Dorothy Day’s Long Coziness with the Radical Left

By John Zmirak, The Stream - Day felt a deep spiritual void that sent her along many byways and that finally landed her inside the Catholic church. But she never overcame or even seemed to question her initial repugnance at people of property, at middle-class citizens who owned their businesses and strove to better themselves and their families… The Communist movement which Day was serving was even then, at the same time, viciously persecuting the small landowners of Russia…

June 14, 2018

Catholic Hospitals Will be Forced to Do Abortions Once Ireland Implements Legalized Abortion

By Micaiah Bilger, LifeNews - Irish leaders claimed legalizing abortion was about “choice,” but now they are insisting that Catholic hospitals be forced to do them… Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said this week that Catholic hospitals will not be allowed to opt out of aborting unborn babies… On May 25, Ireland voted to repeal its Eighth Amendment, which gave unborn babies a right to life. Now, the legislature is debating when and how to legalize the killing of unborn babies….

June 14, 2018

Cultural Contradiction: Miss America Cancels Swimsuits, as More Americans Back Porn

By Lizzy Joslyn, CNA - While the nation’s largest beauty pageant is proudly covering up in the name of women’s empowerment, Americans increasingly believe pornography to be morally acceptable — a trend that one Catholic commentator finds to be incoherent... “On one hand, it seems like the media wants to say ‘yes, you shouldn’t treat people just according to their bodies,’ and on the other hand, they seem to be saying ‘it’s actually a very liberating thing if you want it to be a liberating thing,’” said Matt Fradd....

June 14, 2018

Who Are The Saints in the Eucharistic Prayer?

By Allison Low, Catholic Stand - It struck me that, although I had heard these names hundreds if not thousands of times in the Mass over the years, I did not know much about their significance or even who some of them were. This moved me to spend some time studying the lives of these holy Saints whom the Church holds so prominently in her life, to the point of inserting them into the heart of the Mass itself.