Catholic Church

By Michael W. Chapman, CNSNews - A new survey shows that only 24% of Catholic women of all ages in America attend Mass once a week -- Sunday Mass attendance is mandatory in Catholic teaching -- but for those women born prior to the liberal reforms of Vatican II, a higher percentage (53%) of them go to Mass weekly.

By Dan Hitchens, Catholic Herald - The Catholic philosopher Josef Seifert, a former member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has called on one of its new members to revoke his “grave errors” or resign... Seifert was referring to Fr Maurizio Chiodi, who recently defended the use of artificial contraception.

By K.V. Turley, National Catholic Register - The 16th-century Protestant Revolt in its most extreme form denied people icons and statues, holy water and incense, candles, the Crucifix — even the Body and Blood of Our Lord… Thankfully, the Catholic sense of worship has always been more holistic. It recognizes that we are not created disembodied spirits, but rather made flesh and blood, mind and spirit, heart and soul…

By Mr. Jason Craig, Those Catholic Men - The average father cannot easily face the challenges he intuits, because he doesn’t understand them. And it is not because he is unintelligent, but because the force that has overtaken the totality of the developed world is too often unrecognized.  We don’t realize it in the same way we don’t realize air – its total presence is such a given as to be unnoticed.