Catholic Church

By Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D., Catholic Exchange - In today’s fuzzy moral landscape, it is quite unpopular to even speak of sin, never mind condemn it.  It’s even more politically incorrect to talk about God taking stern action against sin and those who promote it... But that is exactly what the story of Noah and the flood is all about, as we are reminded by the scripture readings for the first Sunday in Lent.

By Hannah Brockhaus,  CNA/EWTN News - On Saturday the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has reconfirmed Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston as head of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, also reconfirming seven members and appointing nine new... The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCPM), is an advisory body to the Pope on the issue of safeguarding minors and vulnerable adults from sexual abuse.

By Fr. Dwight Longenecker - It’s Lent and suddenly the fast food chains in America are fishing for the Catholic customer. The convenience food giants learned long ago that on Fridays during Lent Catholics are not buying hamburgers, hot dogs, pork sausages, pastrami, pepperoni, and baloney, barbecue, chops, subs, ribs, steaks and chicken. In fact it was the Catholics of Cincinnati, Ohio who helped bring about the famous Filet-O-Fish sandwich.

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - Professor John Rist, a respected Catholic historian and philosopher challenged Cardinal Blase Cupich during a lecture last week about Pope’ Francis so-called “revolution of mercy” that has caused what many are defending as a “paradigm shift” in Catholic practice…