Catholic Church

By Brian Williams, Litrugy Guy Blog - Most of the faithful are in agreement that we must do a better job teaching young Catholics about their faith. Recent studies have shown that many Catholics have already left the Church by the time they reach adulthood. What has also been discovered is that many never really understood the faith to begin with.

By Anian Christoph Wimmer, National Catholic Register - The president of the German Bishops’ Conference has declared that, in his view, Catholic priests can conduct blessing ceremonies for homosexual couples… Cardinal Reinhard Marx (said) that “there can be no rules” about this question. Rather, the decision of whether a homosexual union should receive the Church’s blessing should be up to “a priest or pastoral worker” and made in each individual case, the German prelate stated.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Jesus Christ came to save us from our sins; that is certainly true. St. Paul said, The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost (1 Tim 1:15). St. Paul mentioned another truth, however, one we too often forget. It came during a benediction to the people Galatia....

By Fr. David Andrew Fisher, Crisis Magazine - Last week fourteen Catholic senators joined those who voted against the proposed law that would have prohibited abortions after twenty weeks. Thus leaving our nation as one of only seven in the world that allows abortion after twenty weeks of life in the womb... Much like the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision issued in 1857 that denied the human rights of slaves… we may very well find ourselves on the wrong side of history in our lack of defense for the Right to Life of the unborn….