Catholic Church

By Diane Montagna, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal Burke said last week’s alleged ‘interview’ on hell with Pope Francis, reported by his 94-year-old atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, “went beyond what is tolerable.”… Burke also called the Vatican’s response to the “scandalized reactions” from across the globe “highly inadequate,” because it failed to reassert the Church’s teaching on the immortality of the soul and the existence of hell…

By Staff Reporter, Catholic Herald - Pope Paul VI could be the patron saint for the protection of the unborn when he is canonised later this year, the postulator of his cause has hinted.. Fr Antonio Marrazzo told CNA that, given that the miracles attributed to Blessed Paul both involved unborn babies, “Paul VI might be invoked as the protector of unborn life.”

By Trent Horn, Catholic Answers - Last month I was blessed to lead forty-five pilgrims through the Holy Land and then spend Holy Week in Jerusalem.  At 5 a.m. on Easter morning I woke up and began my trek to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher that is built over the site of Jesus’ crucifixion and his empty tomb. As I walked through the quiet, narrow streets of the Old City I thought of the women in the Gospels who walked this same path