Catholic Church

August 26, 2017

Insightful Images of Sin in a Short Cartoon

Msgr. Charles Pope - The animated short below is a dramatization (sort of) of the story of Samson and Delilah as well as a commentary on lust and power. (If you would like to review the story of Samson and Delilah, click here.).. As the video opens, two superheroes are summoned to an emergency.

August 26, 2017

The Seven Capital Sins of the Internet

By Daniel Esparza, Catholic Education Resource Center - At a conference in 2011… one of the founders of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman, suggested a theory that would explain the success or failure of social networks: each is related, in more than one way, with one of the seven deadly sins. The suggestion isn't so crazy: Facebook is vanity, Netflix is sloth, and Tinder — need we say it? — is obviously lust.

August 26, 2017

Catholic Archbishop Smacks SPLC for Falsely Labelling Alliance Defending Freedom a ‘Hate Group’

By CNSNews.com Staff - Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia criticized the Southern Poverty Law Center for falsely labeling the Alliance Defending Freedom as a “hate group.”.. “When an organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center labels a mainstream religious liberty advocate like the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) as a ‘hate group’ it’s simply betraying its own bitter contempt for the people and convictions the ADF defends,”

August 26, 2017

LifeSiteNews: Pope Francis Invokes ‘Magisterial Authority’ to Call Vatican II Mass ‘Irreversible’

By Pete Baklinskiand John-Henry Westen, LifeSiteNews - Pope Francis invoked “magisterial authority” this week to declare that Vatican II liturgical reforms are “irreversible.” .. Speaking to participants at the 68th Italian National Liturgical Week in Rome, Francis said that after the “long journey” of Vatican II’s liturgical reforms beginning five decades ago, “we can state with confidence and magisterial authority that the liturgical reform is irreversible.”