Catholic Church

January 26, 2018

Portuguese Diocese Endorses Communion for Remarried

By Staff Reporter, Catholic Herald - The Braga document says that divorced and remarried Catholics may receive Communion after a process of discernment of around six months... Under the Church teaching reaffirmed by John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Communion is only possible if an individual resolves to live “in complete continence”. The new guidelines appear to say that this is not necessary.

January 26, 2018

Fr. Martin’s Pro-LGBT Propaganda Is Creeping Into the Church and the Pro-Life Movement. Reject It.

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews - As a same-sex attracted man, I can say categorically—explicitly and unambiguously: Pay no attention to the purveyors of gay liberation theology who promote the infiltration and metastasization of LGBT ideology within the Church... Fr. James Martin, S.J., is perhaps its most visible proponent, interpreting Scripture—and more broadly, all Church teaching—in light of the LGBT experience.

January 26, 2018

Msgr. Charles Pope: A Brief Story About the Need for Prudence

By Msgr. Charles Pope - God speaks to us through many experiences and images. Sometimes there are differing layers of meaning and we must carefully and prudently discern what God is saying to us. Prudence is not the same as caution. Rather, it is the virtue that bids us, in each situation, to keep in mind our deeper call and final goal.

January 26, 2018

Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky: Of Popes, Bishops, Priests – and the Bridge Too Far

Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky, The Catholic Thing - The long history of papal triumphalism in the name of Christ came to a symbolic end with Paul VI’s retirement of the papal tiara (now on display at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C.). Papal leadership in defense of Christendom also symbolically ended with Pope Paul’s return of the Turkish battle flag captured by Christians at Lepanto.