Catholic Church

By William Kilpatrick, Crisis Magazine - In a recent essay, Providence College theology professor Paul Gondreau argues that many bishops believe that the prudential course to take in addressing our culture’s descent into moral degeneracy is to ignore it. Although the USCCB produced a fine document three months ago about the moral limits of medical intervention for those seeking transgender procedures, there hasn’t been much in the way of follow-up on the larger moral issues. For example, with the exception of Bishop Joseph Strickland, it was lay Catholics who led the opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision to honor a group of men in drag whose main mission in life is to mock Christianity and especially Catholicism.

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine - When America’s loneliest bishop stretched his arms and stepped from his bedside in the predawn darkness of Deep East Texas yesterday, smallmouth bass were snoozing at the bottom of Bellwood Lake, and prairie lands of cattle kept still before sunrays began to gore their hides... There, he saw “his own” words. He was leaving the “Bergoglian sect” and Catholic Church, and taking all of Tyler with him. A group claiming to be “The Bishops of Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate” typed it up ....

By Solène Tadié, EWTN News - How to convert the world? A vast question, to say the least, at a time when the West itself, once covered in the “white mantle of churches,” is once again becoming a missionary land, reminiscent of the Church of the first centuries... Scott: The secularist agenda, in America, in Europe, produces a joyless existence. It pursues pleasure and power and wealth, but it never attains the joy that Christ alone can give. ...

By Benedict XVI, The Catholic Thing - We find our starting point in the plausible assertion that modern man would find it difficult to relate to the Church’s traditional sexual morality. Instead, it is said, he has come to terms with his sexuality in a differentiated and less confining way and thus urges a revision of standards which are no longer acceptable in the present circumstances, no matter how meaningful they may have been under past historical conditions. ...