Catholic Church

By Terry Mattingly, Get Religion - Why are so many people mad about the "thoughts and prayers" angle of the tragedy at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas?... The short answer is that many Americans think that "prayers" are not real, if the goal is solving a problem in the real world, while gun-control legislation is "real," since it is linked to government and politics

By Nathaniel Lauer, Catholic Stand - The date was September 8th, 1565, and the location St. Augustine, Florida, upon the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Here was witnessed a Catholic Mass in which Spanish settlers and Native Americans convened together to celebrate the sacred mysteries and also join together for a feast. Hundreds were present at this Mass, including the Timucuan Indians

By Dr. Jared Staudt,  Those Catholic Men - Bl. John Henry Newman… “I know that all times are perilous, and that in every time serious and anxious minds, alive to the honour of God and the needs of man, are apt to consider no times so perilous as their own.” In other words, we always seem to think our challenges are the hardest.

By Pete Baklinski, LifeSiteNews - The unity of the Church would be “destroyed” if bishops’ conferences, not the Vatican, had the final word over translations of liturgical texts, said Cardinal Gerhard Müller in a recent interview... (Müller) expressed reservations in an interview with Passauer Neue Presse published Wednesday about Pope Francis’s recent liturgical reform that allowed bishops to oversee and approve translations.