Catholic Church

December 15, 2017

LifeSiteNews: EWTN Priest: Popes Before Francis Would Have Rejected His Teaching on Marriage (Video)

By Dorothy Cummings, LifeSiteNews - Fr. Gerald Murray told Raymond Arroyo, host of EWTN’s “World Over,” that Amoris Laetitia could not supplant Catholic doctrine... “There can be no rupture about Catholic teaching,” he said. “Whether it’s properly affirmed or seemingly denied, it still remains what it is.”

December 15, 2017

Arise and Go Home – A Mid-Advent Reflection on What Our Savior Offers

By Msgr. Charles Pope - I’d like to focus today on Jesus’ command: “Rise, take up your stretcher, and go home.” It is a small picture of the grace unto salvation that is offered to us by the Lord. Here is a man who is powerless to help or heal himself, so the Lord helps and heals him. Though “dead in his sins,” he now rises and lays hold of a whole new life.

December 14, 2017

G.K. Chesterton’s “A Christmas Carol” Helps Us See the World As a Child Does

By Anna O'Neil, Aleteia - Chesterton’s little “Christmas Carol” is simple enough for a 2-year-old to understand. Actually, a very young child might understand it better than the rest of us, knowing so well how comforting it is to be cuddled close by his mother. The poem makes use of very few details, and no literary conceits, to draw us into the room with the Holy Family.

December 14, 2017

PA Fights Nuns, Just Doesn’t Want Them in Courtroom

By Chris Woodward, OneNewsNow - Little Sisters of the Poor will be in Pennsylvania today, Dec. 14, to observe that state's attempt to reverse an exemption by the Trump administration.. OneNewsNow reported in a Dec. 7 story that California and Pennsylvania are suing the Trump administration after it reversed an exemption that offered relief to the Catholic charity and other religious organization that fought the mandate.