Catholic Church

November 15, 2017

St. Albert the Great: Saintly Scientist for the Modern World

By Dr. Kevin Vost, Catholic Exchange - We live in a day of increasing polarization, presented with the false dichotomy of having to choose between the scientism of the intelligent, courageous, and godless secular scientists and the fideism of ignorant, benighted, and bigoted fundamentalist Bible-thumpers... The Catholic Church, however, has never been the Church of either-or but of both-and insofar as there are kernels of truth in each side.

November 15, 2017

Cardinal Burke Addresses the ‘Dubia’ One Year After Their Publication

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register - This hermeneutical confusion has already produced a sad result. In fact, the ambiguity regarding a concrete point of the pastoral care of the family has led some to propose a paradigm shift regarding the Church’s entire moral practice, the foundations of which have been authoritatively taught by St. John Paul II in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor.

November 15, 2017

Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.: Does “Climate Change” Cause Hunger?

By Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., Crisis Magazine - “War and Climate Change Are Causes of Hunger” (Oct. 20, 2017). These words were contained in an address that Pope Francis gave in Rome to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations… Most of the controversy about “climate change” has to do not with agriculture but with politics wherein some human agent, usually progress, population, or free markets, can be blamed and, as a cure, more power can politically be given to governments to control it.

November 15, 2017

BREAKING: Pro-Life Bishop Beats Ultra-Liberal Cdl. Cupich to Head US Bishops’ Pro-Life Office

By Claire Chretien, LifeSiteNews - Strongly pro-life Archbishop Joseph Naumann, Archbishop of Kansas City, Kansas, beat extremely liberal Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, to be the next head of the U.S. bishops' pro-life efforts this morning... Naumann won the race to be Chairman of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities. He won 54 percent of the election