Catholic Church

By Michael Hichborn, Lepanto Institute - Abp. Hebda is once again at the center of controversy due to his personal recommendation of Cynthia Bailey Manns as one of six non-bishop voting delegates from the United States for the Synod on Synodality.  Following this announcement, Complicit Clergy produced a 16-and-a-half-minute video giving some deep insight into who Cynthia Bailey Manns is, illustrating her connection to pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ, synchretist organizations.  What the video points out is that Manns’ resume ties her intimately to at least four highly problematic organizations.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - In this week’s Office of Readings comes a crucial question from Elijah. It came at a time of widespread apostasy among the Jewish people. Elijah summoned a multitude to Mt. Carmel in the far north of Israel: Elijah appealed to all the people and said, “How long will you straddle the issue? If the Lord is God, follow him; if Baal, follow him.” The people, however, did not answer him (1 Kings 18:21).

By John M. Grondelski, The Catholic Thing - Let’s situate Catholic just war theory in its proper context.  It’s not intended to be merely a “five-step checklist on how to go to war” as much as the principled answer to how one may engage in self-defense, by force if necessary.  Just war theory starts with the assumption that war should be avoided.  But it also recognizes that, in the real world, bullies are found on national as well as personal levels, and Christians are not obliged to submit to bullying.

By Regis Martin, EWTN News - At his very last World Youth Day appearance in 2002, Pope St. John Paul II — who, for all his years and infirmity remained forever young — reminded hundreds of thousands of young people who had come to Toronto to celebrate their faith that, in the words of Jesus, “You are the salt of the earth. … You are the light of the world.”... It was the ninth such event since he had first entrusted the young with the joy and the challenge of carrying the message of Christ to the world. ...