Catholic Church

By William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine - Why do Catholics rank the persecution of Christians as a lesser concern than climate change, poverty, human trafficking, and the refugee crisis?... Pictures of people in danger from hurricanes, floods, and forest fires are omnipresent—a constant reminder of the dangers supposedly caused by climate change. By contrast, images of persecuted Christians are in short supply. Hence, their crisis seems less immediate.

By Father John Paul Mary Zeller, National Catholic Register - This week’s scrutiny is from St. John’s Gospel account of the man born blind… A man born blind from birth encounters the Lord Jesus, St. John tells us. Jesus “spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes, and said to him, ‘Go wash in the pool of Siloam’… The physical healing of the man born blind is pointing toward a spiritual healing that the Lord desires to accomplish within us…

By Richard Rex, First Things - It is beyond question that the Roman Catholic Church is currently in the throes of one of the greatest crises in its two-millennium history. In human terms, its future might be said to be in doubt for the first time since the Reformation. The broad contours of the present crisis are the onward march of secularization in Europe and North Americ.....

By John Zmirak, The Stream - Management gurus tell us, “Personnel is policy.” Southern mothers say it differently. “You can tell everything about someone from his friends.” Historians will look at the men Pope Francis promoted. They will draw interesting conclusions... Meet one of the pope’s closest aides. Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga. He faces appalling charges of financial corruption.