Catholic Church

December 23, 2017

Vatican’s Naked Nativity Character Is a Slap In the Face to Those Who are Really Poor

By Dorothy Cummings McLean,LifeSiteNews - The garish Nativity Scene, or presepe, in Saint Peter’s Square disturbed me when I first saw the photos… the figure in St Peter’s Square isn’t supposed to be a nude. It’s not supposed to celebrate the beauty of the human form. We’re being asked to believe that the naked man, pink with health and bursting with muscles, represents the vulnerability of nakedness.

December 22, 2017

BLOG: As Boston’s “Law Era” Ends, “We’re Living With the Consequences”

By Rocco Palmo, Whispers in the Loggia - (A)s one op put it, only today can it be said that "The Bernard Law Era in Boston is over." In the annals of American Catholicism's gravest scandal in its three-plus centuries of existence, that kind of personification has been unique – even if, to lesser degrees outside, the Fifth Archbishop was still the unparalleled global lightning rod of what had been a widespread, horrific evil….

December 22, 2017

From the Archives: Pope Leo XIII: “Taxing the Rich Does Not Help the Poor”

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine - How so? In this essay I will focus on two of the evils Leo discusses in his letter. The first is the denial of the body; the second, the severance of human law from divine law, effacing in citizens the sense of moral obligation. We obey such human laws because it is to our advantage, narrowly and materially conceived, to do so, not because it is right and just.

December 22, 2017

When the LGBT Bullyboys Come Calling

By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine - A few weeks ago, I outed the anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign as a “font of evil.” I asserted they are in the business of persecuting Christian believers who may disagree with the homosexual agenda. I explained how they are rich and powerful and want to force their agenda on school children… A few days later, I received a letter from one Darrin Hurwitz, General Counsel of the anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign. It was a threat letter. It is a bully-letter.