Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - We are concluding our reading of the First Letter of John during daily Mass. Many struggle to understand this letter because they miss the experiential aspects of the faith to which he refers. Consider just a few brief lines from the end of the letter: [God] has testified on behalf of his Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within himself …. And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life…

By K. Albert Little, Patheos - Catholicism, says Trueman, has the market cornered on historical continuity and institutional unity. Elements which should be of vital importance to any Christian given the fact that Jesus said He would establish a Church which nothing would overcome (Matthew 16:18) and prayed, in His final recorded prayer on Earth, for Christian unity (John 17:20-23).

By Ed Condon, Catholic Herald - The push for a change, or “development,” in Church teaching regarding the divorced and remarried has much wider implications. The real goal is to spin the Church into an abdication of her objective and absolute moral authority, especially in the realm of human sexuality. The language of “personal conscience” is being used to dress up the grave evil of moral relativism. Those fighting for it are the remnant and inheritors of the liberal generation of the 60s and 70s.