Catholic Church

March 22, 2018

Dealing With a Walk-Away World

By John Horvat II, Crisis Magazine - Our walk-away world is an ambiguous place where people do not like to define things. They prefer to act upon impulses... I do not blame this walk-away world on the new generation. In fact, I think it is the product of successive generations, including my own, that have succumbed to the intemperance of our times. We want everything now, instantly and effortlessly.

March 22, 2018

Archdiocese Removes Girl Scouts, Citing Catholic Conflict

By Ann Saladin, Guest Blogger, National Catholic Register - The Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas, led by Archbishop Joseph Naumann, released a statement on May 1 “to begin the process of transitioning away from the hosting of parish Girl Scout troops and toward the chartering of American Heritage Girl troops.”… as the gap between the Girl Scout program and the pro-life, pro-family teachings of the Church continues to widen, including Girl Scouts regular promotion of pro-abortion women and organizations…

March 21, 2018

What Mary Eberstadt told Notre Dame about ‘Humanae Vitae’

By Perry West, CNA/EWTN News - Eberstadt told students at the University of Notre Dame Tuesday that a 50-year-old document on contraception is critical to understanding the state of contemporary culture… Eberstadt… explaining that the prophetic message of Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae has become a reality… “Contraceptive technology, as Paul VI foresaw, opens a Pandora’s box of mischief in which the stronger have the advantage”…

March 21, 2018

More Reasons Why “Blessing” Gay Couples Is Scandalous

By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine - When the Church “blesses” someone, it usually does so for one of two reasons: to ask God to protect that person from evil, or to confirm that person in the good. Because our spiritual lives are dynamic—at no point are we “holy” enough to rest on our laurels—those two reasons are usually two sides of the same coin...