Catholic Church

September 13, 2017

What I Learned About Happiness While Fleeing Hurricane Irma

By Calah Alexander, Aleteia - I saw our community come together in a beautiful way before and during the storm, and being separated from them as the eyewall took out power and cell signal was more distressing than I anticipated. I didn’t realize how much we loved Ave Maria until it was threatened.

September 13, 2017

Archbishop Chaput on the Enduring Legacy of Veritatis Splendor

By JD Flynn, CNA/EWTN News - We live in a liquid time.. Changes in technology, science and culture now happen very rapidly. It’s hard to find firm ground where we can stand and make sense of things… It becomes easy to think that the basic character of the world, the nature of good and evil, the moral standards for human behavior, have somehow changed and become more ambiguous, more dependent on circumstances. But they haven’t…

September 13, 2017

LifeSiteNews: Catholic Leaders Defend Trump After Pope Challenges His Pro-Life Views

By Doug Mainwaring, LifeSiteNews - Pro-life Catholic leaders are defending President Trump against Pope Francis after the Pontiff questioned Trump’s pro-life views, despite the fact that Trump has racked up major pro-life accomplishments during his short time in office… “One has to ask why Pope Francis, who was silent about President Obama's full support of the abortion industry, is questioning President Trump's commitment to the pro-life cause,” wondered Michael Hichborn…

September 13, 2017

Msgr. Charles Pope: How to Respond When People Say, ‘Who Am I to Judge?’

By Msgr. Charles Pope, National Catholic Register - Never mind that the very ones who shout “Judge Not” are enacting a moral law in the very act of banishing moral law; that they are making a judgment in the very act of forbidding judgment. Logic and rational consistency have not been necessary in times like these... But the question “Who am I to judge?” is not merely or really a rhetorical question. It actually has an answer.