Catholic Church

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 Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange - Today’s Gospel is so familiar to Catholics that the potential for missing the punch it packs is inordinately high.  If ever we are challenged on our belief in the papacy, we always look to this passage to begin our defense.  We see that when Jesus quizzes the apostles about His developing reputation, they are well aware of what people were saying.  This helps us understand that there was a buzz in the air about Jesus. 

By Dexter Duggan, The Wanderer - The news that Joe Biden’s government permanently welded open 114 floodgates in the border wall in Arizona to make certain it was even easier for illegal immigrants to pour into the United States highlighted the image of Biden making this a doormat nation that anyone can tread on... An article posted August 21 at the New York Post said, “Each of the 114 gates in Arizona, which have been open for nearly two months, has 12-foot doors wide enough for a motorcycle to drive through. Smugglers drive busloads of migrants to the Mexican side of the border, where they get off and simply walk into the U.S.”