Catholic Church

May 29, 2018

Across the Land of St. Patrick, Night Has Fallen

By K.V. Turley, LifeSiteNews - (Pope St. John Paul’s) 1979 visit marks an ending. It was thereafter resolved, determined by forces seen and unseen, that the moment had come, Catholic Ireland should fall. Fifteen hundred years of fidelity were to be broken. On that September day, as the papal jet’s engines started up, and the final salute of the military guard of honor was taken, what was then not fully understood was that the last act of one story was ending just as the first of a very different one was beginning, appropriately, with the departure of the Vicar of Christ.

May 29, 2018

Ireland Vote to Legalize Abortion Called a “Tragedy of Historic Proportions.”

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life,told LifeNews: “The referendum in Ireland yesterday took away protection from children in the womb. Those who voted to remove that protection, which was given by the 8th Amendment to the Irish Constitution, have made a grave mistake.”

May 26, 2018

How to Switch from Martha to Mary in an Instant

By Carrie Gress, National Catholic Register - As I churned the details of it over in my head, working myself up into an emotional lather like I had done so many other times, something new came to mind: “Guard your peace.” It was gentle and came in almost a whisper into my soul. But it was clear.

May 26, 2018

Pope Francis: A Paradigm Shift in the Church’s Position on Homosexual Sin?

By Luiz Sérgio Solimeo, The American TFP - Everyone still remembers the statement by Pietro Cardinal Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, in January of this year that the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia represents “a paradigm shift,” a “new approach” to “remarried” divorcees and the Holy Eucharist... This statement was soon echoed and developed further by Blase Cardinal Cupich of Chicago before a select audience in Cambridge, England, on February 9.