Catholic Church

November 9, 2017

The ‘Ecumenical Mass’ Idea May Be Dead, But What Comes Next?

By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald - The Vatican, as this magazine reports, has denied that there ever was a commission to oversee an “Ecumenical Mass”, that is, a Mass that could be celebrated by Catholics and Protestants together... Needless to say, the whole thing was a non-starter, but not quite for the reasons you might suppose.

November 9, 2017

Overlooking the Failings of Catholic Democrats

By Nicholas Senz, Crisis Magazine - Catholic Democrats have failed to fulfill commands of the moral law—if the law says “Do not support abortion,” and you support abortion, you have violated the law.… many Catholic Democrats do indeed dispute whether we ought to oppose abortion or same-sex “marriage” or euthanasia, but these are precisely the issues that are not up for debate. The demand of the moral law is clear, but it is ignored.

November 9, 2017

Cardinal Müller Clarifies: There Are ‘No Exceptions’ to Ban on Communion for ‘Remarried’

Translated by LifeSite's Diane Montagna - “No, no change and no demolishing the Dubia. The purpose of my intervention was only to state that the one way to interpret Amoris Laetitia is in continuity with the Word of God in the Bible, the previous Magisterium, and with the Tradition of the great Councils of Florence, Trent and Vatican II.” (said) Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith…

November 8, 2017

My Two Encounters with our Blessed Mother

By Fr. Chris Pietraszko, Courageous Priest - At best, my relationship with Mary was ideological, and even then, I hadn’t yet crystallized my theological understanding of her importance. This still continues to develop in my on-going study of the Catholic faith.