Catholic Church

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - In high levels of government, an elderly man dresses like a woman. He looks like a comical character out of Vaudeville or a Monty Python skit, but he’s unashamed. We also have young men who wear women’s swimsuits and easily win female swimming competitions... During the years of the Soviet empire and rigged Olympics, we laughed at comedian Yakov Smirnoff’s joke: “In Russia, if a male athlete loses, he becomes a female athlete.”.. Today, nobody laughs. Why not?

By Bishop Athanasius Schneider, The Remnant - Even in the case of a heretical pope he will not lose his office automatically and there is no body within the Church to declare him deposed because of heresy. Such actions would come close to a kind of a heresy of conciliarism or episcopalism. The heresy of conciliarism or episcopalism says basically that there is a body within the Church (Ecumenical Council, Synod, College of Cardinals, College of Bishops), which can issue a legally binding judgment over the Pope.

By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine - September 19, 2023, marks the 177th anniversary of the appearance of Our Lady to two French children on an Alpine mountain near La Salette in southeastern France. In contrast to other, better-known Marian apparitions of the last two centuries, Our Lady appeared but once at La Salette. That said, her message had a strong moral content, even if it might perhaps not register as such to moderns...