Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The Lord speaks to us today of one of the most central struggles in our life: fear. Yes, fear is one of our deepest drives and though it has a positive purpose, too often we miss the mark in directing its energy. The positive role of fear is to alert us that something is wrong and to divert us from danger. With our fallen nature, though, we often fear the wrong things while lacking a sober fear of the right things. We major in the minors of life; we get all worked up about passing things but do not have a sober and reverent fear of eternal things. We fear sinful and weak human beings, but not God, who is just, who sees all, and who will assign us our eternal destiny.

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - The synodalists have assured us that the great truths of the Faith are settled and that the main problem we now face is only to discover a new way of “being Church” via dialogue and listening. Does this really reflect the Catholic understanding of fallen human nature, let alone the history of the Church or the secular world? A compass is a handy tool in the right hands. But as the guide to the “synodal process,” it’s likely to lead us to re-discover – and quite quickly – that you can’t fool God or mother nature.

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - As for the bishops and cardinals who remain silent, who appear acquiescent in the face of this crisis, how are we to awaken them? How does one get them, as it were, to play the man and speak truth to power? It is not a want of faith, surely, that keeps them supine; but rather, it is a lack of courage, holy courage, which only the Spirit can bestow... Standing athwart the petty pluralisms and diversities of the age, we have the voice of the living God, whose presence among us is attested to by the Church He founded upon St. Peter and all the popes thereafter. Let us hold fast to Him, who redeemed us by His blood, resting in Him so that nothing can shake our resolve to remain steadfast in the coming days.

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - The key document which will guide the October meeting of bishops in the Synod on Synodality highlights topics such as women’s diaconal “ordination,” married priests, and a need to “welcome” the “remarried divorcees, people in polygamous marriages, LGBTQ+ people.”... Issued at a press conference June 20, the Instrumentum Laboris (IL) or working document, is particularly lengthy: with a 10,000 word foreward and a further 17,000 words in the worksheets, which contain the themes for discussion at the upcoming synodal meeting.