Catholic Church

By John-Henry Westen, LifeSiteNews - A Dutch cardinal has said that Pope Francis’ failure to uphold the Church’s authentic faith makes him think of the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s prophecy of a “final trial” for the Church before the second coming of Christ... Cardinal Willem Eijk, 64, the Archbishop of Utrecht, made the startling comment in an article published today at the National Catholic Register.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - (O)ne must realize that Liew’s most revolting ideas are the products not of scholarly investigation but of a fevered imagination, obsessed with issues of perverse sexuality. If the Liew essays that have prompted the current controversy qualify as honest theological inquiry, then by the same logic the lewd commentaries scrawled on the walls of bathroom stalls at turnpike rest areas should be regarded as literature...

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register - Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith, expressed his disappointment with the outcome, saying the statement was “very poor” as it contained “no answer to the central, essential question.” It is not possible, he stressed, to be in “sacramental communion without ecclesial communion.”