Catholic Church

April 25, 2018

LifeSiteNews: Henry Sire: Catholic Lay People Have a “Right and Duty” to Correct the Papacy

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews - Regarding troubling developments in the current papacy, author and historian Henry Sire said Catholic lay people “can’t just do nothing, because this would obviously give Pope Francis the idea that he can go ahead with his program, without any opposition.”.. “Catholics have always realized that this was a right and a duty of Catholics,” he added.

April 25, 2018

Protecting Innocent Life is the First Issue

By James Robison, The Stream - Responsibility, compassion, and freedom can’t even exist when we ignore the first issue. The very right to life.... It is unimaginable that a once-great nation is not only tolerating but defending and even supporting abortion with our tax dollars... A nation cannot continue killing its children and expect to escape the consequences. We need not tremble at the judgment of God as much as the fruit of our own savagery....

April 24, 2018

Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.: On Facts and Truths

By James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing - Truth does not just mean that something is out there, something that we did not make or put there… Truth means that what is out there is now also within us. We “become” what it is in a knowing way. We possess it because we know it and affirm what is there as true… “In the beginning was the Word.” All truth as truth is connected with the “I am the truth.” All freedom as freedom is connected with the truth that makes us free.

April 24, 2018

BOOK REVIEW on Why Catholics Should Have a Great Sense of Humour

By Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald - Saint Teresa of Avila is said to have commented, “God protect me from sad-faced saints” and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, one of her spiritual daughters who had been a solemn and serious atheist philosopher before her conversion, admitted that she had never laughed so much as when she had become a Carmelite nun....