Catholic Church

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Our view of marriage is a reliable spiritual barometer to measure our attitudes toward the practice of the faith. The Catholic faith and families reflect each other and are intertwined. Rules have been given a bad rap since the 1960s. We need reminding why righteous rules are good for us and set us free. Practicing Catholics “play by the rules.”... Jesus says, “You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (Jn. 8:32) The Ten Commandments don’t restrict our freedom; the truths of the Ten Commandments express human freedom.

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine - In early June, the worst secret in the world broke... It spread like Canadian wildfire smoke into the hardscrabble cities of Chalco and Guadalajara, Mexico. It filtered southeast into the terraced hillsides of Guatemala and Honduras, and then it began to spread into Brasilia and São Paulo, Brazil. It finally settled across the Atlantic Ocean in the dry lands of Tanzania... The secret? Fr. Dan Leary, the spiritual father and chaplain to many thousands of poor Boystown and Girlstown students, was leaving. It reached the ears of his young ones like the sudden, thin, plunging blade of a guillotine.

By Joseph D'Hippolito, The Stream - In a recent four-week period, three events showed how Pope Francis holds no respect for Christian doctrine, faith or practice. Even worse, these events reflect the pope’s desire to redefine the Catholic Church in his own image... First, Francis showed that he rejects Jesus’ command to “make disciples of all nations.” Next, the pope celebrated an artist who created a shockingly blasphemous work. Finally, Francis cracked down on an American bishop who resists LGBTQ activism.

By David Carlin,  The Catholic Thing - These progressive folks have the long and instructive history of liberal Protestantism lying before them – if only they would take the trouble to look at it.  Once you begin, motivated by a desire to modernize your religion, dropping this or that ancient Christian doctrine, soon the entire structure of Christian faith and morals begins to collapse.  And as it collapses, many church members who desire true Christianity, or something very close to it, abandon their now-heretical church.