Catholic Church

By Jayd Henricks, First Things - He did it again. During a recent visit to a Jesuit school in Portugal, the Holy Father once more criticized the Catholic Church in the United States. But this time, he did not pull any punches. Pope Francis made it abundantly clear that he does not like the Church in America. He thinks U.S. Catholics are backward-looking and an obstacle to the Holy Spirit. He thinks many of them have rejected Vatican II and want to turn the clock back to some pre-conciliar time.

By Press Release, The Remnant - At Our Lady of Belen Chapel in West Miami, roughly 350 people — young and old — show up weekly for services, an old-style Catholic Mass that had been celebrated for centuries before the Second Vatican Council reformed the Catholic Church in the 1960s. One look around the picturesque Belen chapel and it’s clear that this Mass, though grounded in tradition and conducted mostly in Latin, is not just for older Catholics. Amid the sacred chanting and echoing organs, babies fuss and parents distract their toddlers with toys and coloring books.

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - ... leadership is not about the ego of the leader... It’s about the common objective, obviously, but also about the men one leads, even the cranks and sluggards... It’s why, in the field, a Marine officer typically eats last. His men come first... A good leader deals with doubting voices, excuses, and criticism as part of the natural terrain. He listens well. He doesn’t whine. He doesn’t bully. A leader’s private frustrations and preferences are understandable; they’re part of being human. But his public words and actions have consequences ....

By James Monti, The Wanderer - By now all of us are deeply aware of the grave crisis for the Church that is likely to arise from the upcoming Synod on Synodality, which is just two months away. The Church’s most faithful prelates, in particular Gerhard Cardinal Mueller, Raymond Cardinal Burke, Robert Cardinal, Sarah and the late George Cardinal Pell, Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Bishop Joseph Strickland, and others as well, have very courageously and forthrightly warned us of the dangers that we will be facing as a purposefully selected cadre of the Church’s most notorious dissenters and enemies will be given privileged places of power and influence at the table of the synod to decide the future fate of the Church.