Catholic Church

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - Are you envious because I am generous? The landowner’s question at the end of today’s parable addresses the vice of envy. ... Of course, the parable is not meant to be a lesson on social justice or fair labor practices. It’s an absurd story that highlights God’s generosity; that he admits to heaven even those who arrive at the last minute; that Divine Mercy is beyond the calculations of human justice.

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - The former Prefect of the Dicastery (formerly Congregation) for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, has issued a strong statement of support for Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, advising him to “not resign.”... In a statement published on kath.net September 21, Müller offered his support to Strickland. “It is terrible what is being done to Bishop Strickland, an abuse of office against the divine right of the episcopate." ....

By Cardinal George Pell, The Spectator - Shortly before he died on Tuesday, Cardinal George Pell wrote the following article for The Spectator in which he denounced the Vatican’s plans for its forthcoming ‘Synod on Synodality’ as a ‘toxic nightmare’. The booklet produced by the Synod, to be held in two sessions this year and next year, is ‘one of the most incoherent documents ever sent out from Rome’, says Pell. Not only is it ‘couched in neo-Marxist jargon’, but it is ‘hostile to the apostolic tradition’ and ignores such fundamental Christian tenets as belief in divine judgment, heaven and hell. ... ~Damian Thompson