Catholic Church

February 12, 2018

The Apostasy of Our Times

By Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek, STD, The Catholic Thing - For over fifty years, there has been a relentless campaign to reinterpret the Gospel in order to remove the Cross from Christian life. This has been done in the name of love, mercy, and realism – but it is none of these. It is a denial of God’s love manifest in the suffering of Christ that abandons people to sin, fear, and error....

February 12, 2018

Pope Francis Gets His ‘Mess’

By Fr. Benedict Kiely, National Review - Crises and scandals have gathered at the Vatican in the past month. This pontificate is spreading chaos and confusion... To the Vatican’s abandonment of Chinese Catholics and of the Church’s ancient teaching on marriage, add Pope Francis’s recent outrageous comments relating to sexual abuse of minors by priests....

February 12, 2018

Cardinal Cupich Lays Out Why Amoris Laetitia is ‘Revolutionary’ for Catholic Teaching

By Claire Chretien, LifeSiteNews - The principles in Amoris Laetitia “force a paradigm shift,” Cupich said... Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin made nearly identical comments recently about the exhortation representing a “new paradigm” in the Church... Those comments earned a strong corrective from St. John Paul II’s biographer, George Weigel. “The Catholic Church doesn’t do ‘paradigm shifts,’” Weigel responded in a searing First Things essay.

February 12, 2018

Five Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, Part I

By Mary Eberstadt, The Catholic Thing - The “revolution” refers to the changes in sexual behavior and mores following the widespread adoption and approval of reliable contraception over a half-century ago. The first accelerant here is the birth control pill, approved by the FDA in 1963, and widely dispersed in the population thereafter. The second accelerant is the legalization of abortion on demand in 1973 via Roe v. Wade