Catholic Church

March 29, 2018

Washington Backlash Brews as Google, Facebook Bully Conservatives on Social Media

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews - Storm clouds are gathering in the nation’s capitol that may threaten to rain on the nation’s young tech giants’ practices of suppressing conservative messaging while freely promoting liberal ideology… A few tech giants control the vast majority of the flow of online commerce.. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube (owned by Google), each dominating a different facet of the internet

March 29, 2018

Why Were There No Women at the Last Supper?

By Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald - But it is important to notice that in a break with Jewish tradition, Jesus did not celebrate the Passover with a family group. There were no women present… So why did Jesus so pointedly exclude his female followers from the Last Supper? The answer lies in the following: the Last Supper was not a seder like the previous seders…

March 29, 2018

But First, the Cross

By Jennifer Hartline, The Stream - The world has no idea what to do with Holy Week... The world blazes right past Spy Wednesday, Holy (Maundy) Thursday and Good Friday. The world is focused on bunnies and eggs and flowers... The world knows not what Jesus’ week was like before His passion and death. They’ll miss the crowd waving palm branches, praising the Son of David as He enters the town riding a donkey.

March 29, 2018

Misunderstanding NFP: Where Catholics and Non-Catholics Get it Wrong

By Mary Rezac, Catholic News Agency - The encyclical Humanae Vitae by Pope Paul VI shocked the world when it was published in 1968... While society was in the midst of the sexual revolution, the pope wrote that couples could not morally use contraception as a means of planning or spacing their children... “It was an explosion in the Church,” said Dr. Janet Smith,