Catholic Church

By Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, The Catholic Thing - Prior to the 1970 revision of the liturgical calendar, September 29 was the exclusive preserve of the Archangel Michael.  In one of the more intelligent calendar revisions, Michael has been joined to the only other two archangels named in the Bible... In the Low Mass of the Extraordinary Form, the Leonine Prayers include the petition to St. Michael the Archangel to “defend us in battle” and “to be our safeguard against the wiles and snares of the Devil.”  In recent years, that prayer has been returned to usage in many dioceses – although Cardinal Cupich of Chicago has actually forbidden praying it – before, during, or after Mass.  One wonders why.

By Raymond Wolfe, LifeSiteNews - A Catholic priest in Ohio blasted the transgender mutilation of children as “totally disgusting and evil” and warned that voters risk eternal damnation by supporting pro-transgender and pro-abortion policies, regardless of whether they are “personally opposed” to the practices... Father Jay McPhillips of Newbury preached a fiery homily earlier this month against LGBT ideology and abortion, imploring parishioners to reject a far-left ballot initiative in Ohio that would create a “right” to abortion and other so-called “reproductive decisions” in the state.

By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine - The religiously unaffiliated—also known as “nones”—today account for about one quarter of American adults, or about 59 million people. The majority of those are what sociologist Stephen Bullivant calls, in his new book, “nonverts”: those who go from identifying with a religion to identifying as a “none.” And sixteen million of those nonverts were raised Catholic... Do you have any serious proposal for bringing those millions of nonvert Catholics back to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church?