Catholic Church

March 6, 2018

Bishop Against Bishop

By Bradley Eli, M.Div., Ma.Th., ChurchMilitant - The Catholic hierarchy is becoming ever more divided over the Church's perennial moral teachings and the binding doctrinal disciplines rooted in them. The faithful may draw some comfort from knowing that this division was foretold in 1973 by the Blessed Virgin Mary during her Church-approved apparitions in Akita, Japan.

March 6, 2018

The Cardinal Virtues: Prudence

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Traditionally, there are seven Christian virtues: the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, and the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. There are also seven virtues (some of which are also in the previous list) that are specifically directed against the seven deadly sins.

March 6, 2018

China’s Dictator Cracks Down, Threatens the West

By John Zmirak, a Senior Editor, The Stream - China is persecuting Christians and tearing down churches. Why? For many reasons. The CCP is officially, militantly atheistic. Corrupt officials are motivated by greed to seize church land. And Xi Jinping is determined to crush any and all resistance to his rule... But the primary reason that Christians are being targeted? The religion of China is China. Christians, especially Catholics, stand suspect as having divided loyalties.... I hope that the Vatican pulls out of its negotiations with a China that is quickly reverting to Maoist type...

March 6, 2018

Restore Liturgical Beauty with Chant and Polyphony

By John Paul Meenan, Crisis Magazine - The tragedy of the loss of beauty in liturgy is not something which we should dismiss lightly, for if there is one thing we can glean from Scripture, and from the Church’s two millennia of Tradition, it is that we should offer the very best to God in our worship of him; yet what we often experience, sadly, is tawdriness and mediocrity, a second-hand sacrifice like Cain of old....