Catholic Church

June 1, 2018

New Vatican Document Evaluates the World of Finance

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Catholic Register - A new Vatican document, issued May 17 by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) and the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, examines the world of finance through the lens of Catholic social teaching... The world of finance is part of the economy — an essential part — but also is distinct from it. Saving and borrowing, access to capital for new businesses, mortgage provision for housing and retirement savings — all of this is the ordinary workaday world of finance.

May 31, 2018

Social Justice Warrior: A Review of “Pope Francis”

By Brad Miner, Senior Editor, The Catholic Thing - It’s wrong to dignify this exercise in hagiography with the word “documentary.” It’s more akin to the kind of promotional video one might expect to see at a political convention… Wenders, who was raised in a Catholic family, went over to Protestantism and now carelessly describes himself as “Catholic and a Protestant at the same time,” is not at all interested in the pope’s religion. It’s the pope’s activism that hooked him and that led to his decision to accept the Vatican’s request that he make the film.

May 31, 2018

Pope Francis Documentary Suffers from Falsehoods, Political Correctness

By Tom Snyder and Ted Baehr, CNSNews - The documentary “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word” depicts the Pope’s worldview on social, spiritual, and political issues.... It shows Pope Francis reciting a litany of ills. Wars, violence, terrorism, environmental destruction, and poverty are major themes. He says Earth will soon have 8 billion people, and 1 billion will be poor... But the number of people in extreme poverty has fallen for three decades.

May 31, 2018

CDF Prefect: That Only Men Can Be Priests Is ‘Definitive’

By Hannah Brockhaus, CNA/EWTN News - The teaching of the Catholic Church on the impossibility of ordaining women to the priesthood, now or in the future, is clear – and to sow confusion by suggesting otherwise is a serious matter, wrote the Vatican’s top authority on doctrine… “Christ wanted to give this sacrament [of holy orders] to the twelve apostles, all men, who, in turn, transmitted it to other men.”... “The Church has always recognized herself bound by this decision of the Lord, which excludes that the ministerial priesthood can be validly conferred on women.”