Catholic Church

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Jesus says: “You are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren.” (Mt. 23:8) Jesus is the source of all teaching authority. A teacher’s purpose is to instruct students with the truth. Jesus is “the way, and the truth, and the life.” (Jn. 14:6) A teacher who does not participate in the truth of Jesus – human and divine – relinquishes his right to the title of “teacher.”... All papal authority derives from the apostolic deposit of the faith and sacred Tradition and helps us participate in the life of Jesus. Absent this “papal participation trophy,” call no successor of Peter teacher, father, master, or pope.

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - Pope Francis has again indicated an openness to homosexual activity, as he has refused to affirm the Catholic teaching on chastity and celibacy for homosexuals... Full details of the pontiff’s recent conversation with Portuguese Jesuits were released August 28. They include Pope Francis’s thoughts on homosexuality, condemnation of a “reactionary” attitude amongst American Catholics, criticism of  “indietrists” and “clericalism,” and praise of the Synod on Synodality ...

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - The Catholic faith doesn’t come by surveys, opinion polls, referenda, or even synods. It comes from God. Those other instruments might at times be helpful for understanding how best to express and hand on the faith. But the faith itself is of divine origin. Failure to adhere to the principle of dogma inevitably leads members of the Church to chase after public opinion, desperately trying to shape the faith into what others think it should be.