Catholic Church

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - What are the roots of the widespread confusion that reigns in the West? What went wrong in philosophical and theological thought that has brought the West to what Benedict XVI once called “the edge of the abyss”?... These are the questions that led two highly distinguished English scholars — Professors John and Anna Rist — to delve into the probable causes and propose possible solutions, resulting in a new book: "Confusion in the West: Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World" ...

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - For those whom Pope Francis so lovingly said suffer from a sort of “backwardism,” the Church and the world went to pot in the ’60s with Woodstock and its conciliar counterpart. For the liturgical sadomasochists who hate Tradition, the Church has not gone nearly far enough and will not be truly Catholic until it is fully Lutheran... Republicans will tell you that it is the Democrats who will bring the apocalypse as Biden insists on having his strokes while giving interviews. ...

By Louis Knuffke, LifeSiteNews - According to the prophecies of Garabandal, 'Hostilities will break out in different parts of Europe after the Pope’s visit in Moscow.'... “The Pope proposes to meet Patriarch Kirill without delay at one of Moscow’s airports, Domodedovo or Vnukovo, when he flies to Mongolia. Then he will have to refuel in Moscow at one of the airports,” Leonid Sevastyanov, chairman of the World Union of Old Believers (WSU), apparently told TASS on Sunday. ...

By Russell Shaw, The Catholic Thing - From October 1971 through October 1987 seven assemblies of the Synod of Bishops were held, six “ordinary” assemblies and one “extraordinary,” that reviewed the implementation of the Second Vatican Council 20 years after its close. I was press secretary to the U.S. bishops’ delegations at all seven assemblies... Although none of this makes me an expert on synods, it does give me a certain perspective, grounded in experience, from which to point to problems that threaten to make the upcoming gathering at the Vatican in October ...