Catholic Church

By Rev. Ben Johnson, CERC - Americans gave $390 billion to charity in 2016, nearly one-third of it in the month of December.  For charities and their beneficiaries, the holiday spirit — and Americans' desire to lower their year-end tax bill — are a godsend.  But ancient pagans had a different view of private, Christian almsgiving, which still holds important lessons for our day.

By Brian Kranick, Catholic Exchange - Some pro-choice advocates use the Church’s greatest theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas, to argue in favor of abortion. Nicholas Kristof did it in a May 2017 N.Y. Times column about Dr. Willie Parker, an oxymoronically called “Christian Abortion Provider.” Mr. Kristof falsely claimed that St. Thomas Aquinas “believed that abortion was murder only after God imbued fetuses with a soul, at 40 days or more after conception.”

By Jeanne Smits, LifeSiteNews - Cardinal Wim Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht in the Netherlands, has called on Pope Francis to bring “clarity” to the “doubts” sown by the Pope's 2016 exhortation Amoris laetitia regarding the question of Holy Communion for civilly-divorced-and remarried-couples living in habitual adultery… in his opinion, the Pope has “nowhere and never” said that such couples can confess and receive absolution or Holy Communion…..

Fr. Mark Goring, Companions of the Cross, Catholic Charismatic Center, Director