Catholic Church

By AC Wimmer for CNA, Catholic World Report - Cardinal Blase Cupich recently expressed confidence in the intentions behind the German Synodal Way while warning of divisions and praising the pontificate of Pope Francis as “historic” in a carefully-worded interview with German diocesan media... Described by Cologne’s Domradio on June 27 “as a leading voice of the progressive Church in the U.S.A.,” the archbishop of Chicago also spoke about the blessing of same-sex unions as well as the pontificate of Pope Francis.

By John-Henry Westen, LifeSiteNews - In the wake of Pope Francis’ scandalous picks for the upcoming Synod on Synodality, which is beginning to sound more like a “Synod on Sodomy,” we thought we’d remind you of the opinion of Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former Vatican doctrine chief, about Father James Martin. Fr. Martin was chosen as a personal pick for the Synod along with dissident Cardinal Blase Cupich.

By Joseph Pronechen, EWTN News - “There are no simple coincidences in the designs of Divine Providence,” Pope St. John Paul II said on May 12, 1982, at the Chapel of Apparitions on his trip to Fatima. He had traveled there especially to thank our Blessed Mother for saving his life a year earlier... So was it merely a coincidence that this year’s First Reading for July 4, 2023, was from Genesis, recounting the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah? ....

By The Carmelite Sisters, Spiritual Direction - Every year on July 16th, Carmelites throughout the world celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, patroness of the Carmelite Order... Oral tradition tells of St. Simon Stock praying with a passionate intensity to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel during a time of great distress and hardship for the Order. With fervor and faith, he prayed for the first time the Flos Carmeli prayer which he wrote. And Our Lady answered that prayer. ...