Catholic Church

By LifeSiteNews - “We respect the office, but they lose the respect that they deserve when they’re not teaching and working according to the responsibility of their office,” he stated... Commenting that cardinals wear red as an outward sign that they are ready to sacrifice their lives for the good of the Church, Strickland added: “If a cardinal is contradicting the faith, then they don’t deserve the cardinal red … and that is going on too much in the Church.

By John M. Grondelski, Ph.D., Catholic World Report - In the run-up to this fall’s “Synod on Synodality,” I’ve written several essays in this journal relevant to it. I’ve addressed the demand to “welcome” and what welcome has hitherto meant in the Church. I’ve pointed to the call to conversion as the basic posture of the Church. I’ve explored the problem of invoking “experience” as a factor to “discern” what the “Holy Spirit” wants. I’ve focused on factions as providing tribal “insights” as well as how the bishops... should relate to those factions.

By Martina Moyski, Church Militant - The Biden administration is justifying its war on fossil fuels by claiming it's necessary to save the environment, but critics view the president's "green" policy as a Trojan horse to usher in a Marxist agenda — and it enjoys the imprimatur of the U.S. bishops... The "Deposit of Faith Coalition" (has) the mission of exposing the USCCB devotion to leftist causes, including climate change.

By Robert B. Greving, Crisis Magazine - The Gospel has nothing to say about enabling. It says much about sacrifice. As St. Pope John Paul II said in his homily canonizing Edith Stein, “Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks charity, and do not accept anything as charity which lacks truth.” You will know both Truth and Charity by sacrifice. That’s what is missing from the Synod.