Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - What do you expect to happen as a result of reading and hearing God’s Word? Do you expect to encounter something that will change you? The response of most people is pretty tepid and uninspired. Most don’t really expect much nor have they ever. For them, reading or hearing God’s Word is more of a tedious ritual than a transformative reality.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Sadly, we cannot expect even Churchmen and “Catholic educators” to think with philosophical and theological clarity—or even with common sense. The pressure of fashion is apparently far too strong. It is very troubling that the head of the 2023 World Youth Day should willfully abandon that event’s founding purpose to challenge youth to a deeper Catholic commitment by gathering them together in an experience of joyous life in Christ.

By Fr. John A. Perricone, Crisis Magazine - The soul of man was made for the infinite grandeur of God. In St. Augustine’s memorable words, “Thou dost excite him that to praise Thee is his joy. For Thou has made us for Thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in Thee.” This is man’s most noble patrimony: to seek God in His majesty with only the poor gift of our contrition. That, my dear reader, is sadness at not being the way I should be.

By Joseph D'Hippolito, The Stream - Francis Is Not an Outlier... Francis’ globalist activism, far from being unusual, culminates Catholicism’s approach to besetting worldwide problems. For the past six decades, the church embraced a vision of social justice that demands a centralized authority to govern international law, diplomacy, economics and resource allocation worldwide for “the common good,” a phrase the Vatican frequently uses... The Vatican’s embrace of utopian globalism began at the Second Vatican Council, which met between 1962-65 to respond to modern problems. A pastoral document concerning economics and politics, Gaudium et Spes, provided the fundamental vision