Catholic Church

December 19, 2017

What Can Priests Practically Do to Combat the Porn Epidemic?

By Mary Rezac, CNA/EWTN News - Online pornography is one of the fastest growing addictions in the United States, on par with cocaine and gambling... Once confined to the pages of a smuggled Playboy magazine, pornography can now be in the hands of anyone with a smartphone, and is more prolific and anonymous than ever.

December 19, 2017

Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.: On Feelings

By Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., The Catholic Thing - The verb, “to feel” has, in many instances, replaced the verb “to think.” At first sight, these two verbs might seem to be synonyms. But on closer examination they differ tellingly from each other in a manner that indicates a civilizational shift. The society that “feels” is not the society that “thinks.”

December 19, 2017

In No Way Does Amoris Laetitia Authorize ‘Unrestricted Access to the Sacraments’

BY ANITA BOURDIN, ZENIT - The Post-Synodal Exhortation Amoris Laetita in no way authorizes “unrestricted access to the Sacraments,” explained the Argentine Bishops in 2016, in an interpretation of the Exhortation’s text, validated by Pope Francis in a letter. The two documents are published in Spanish on the Vatican’s Internet site.

December 19, 2017

BOOKS: Addressing the ‘Why’ of Catholicism

By John M. Grondelski, EWTN - One of the major contemporary religion stories is the rise of “nones” — the religiously unaffiliated — in the United States. America, long the outlier society when it comes to religious commitment, has been struck, especially in the past two generations, by the ascendance of generations for whom the blasé “whatever” is as descriptive of their approach to organized religion ....