Catholic Church

March 1, 2018

Video: Cardinal Cupich Lobbies Pro-Abortion Catholic Senator…for Immigration

By Claire Chretien, LifeSiteNews - Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich has released a video of himself calling pro-abortion Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL, as part of an immigration lobbying effort on the part of the U.S. bishops... This wouldn’t be that significant had Cupich’s neighboring confrere, Springfield’s Bishop Thomas Paprocki, not recently barred Durbin from Holy Communion until he repents of his extremely public abortion advocacy.

February 28, 2018

A New Assault on ‘Humanae Vitae’ Begins

By E. Christian Brugger, EWTN - Pope John Paul II condemned this form of reasoning in Veritatis Splendor…“Such theories are not faithful to the Church’s teaching, when they believe they can justify, as morally good, deliberate choices of kinds of behavior contrary to the commandments of the divine and natural law. These theories cannot claim to be grounded in the Catholic moral tradition” (76).

February 28, 2018

Believe, That You May Understand: Fides Et Ratio at Twenty

By Charles J. Chaput, First Things - We live in a time when Christian truth is increasingly misunderstood, disdained, or simply unknown, even among baptized Catholics. Michael Polanyi would have recognized our culture’s contradictions, and its emerging shape. It’s a mix of “fierce moral scepticism [paradoxically] fired by moral indignation...

February 28, 2018

Fr. Weinandy: Church Teaching Under ‘Subtle, but Well-Defined Attack’

By Staff Reporter, Catholic Herald - Fr. Thomas Weinandy, a member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission, said the Church’s “four defining ecclesial marks” – the fact it is “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic” as defined in the Nicene Creed – are currently under a “subtle, but well-defined attack”. That threat is coming, he added, “regrettably from within Church leadership.”