Catholic Church

June 13, 2023

Bombshell: Nation’s Largest Catholic Healthcare System Performing Abortions and Sex-Change Operations, by Michael Hichborn

By Michael Hichborn, Lepanto Institute - A new report by the Lepanto Institute shows that CommonSpirit Health, the largest Catholic health care network in the US, is performing sex-change operations and other moral abominations... (the) report reveals that CommonSpirit Health, which derives its Catholic identity directly from a Vatican-established entity, has publicly admitted to the following: Performing sex-change surgeries; Providing hormone therapies for gender dysphoric patients: Providing puberty blockers for kids ...

June 13, 2023

America’s Catholic Bishops Get Rich Off Our Broken Borders, by Joseph D’Hippolito

By Joseph D'Hippolito, The Stream - As the immense human tragedy at the nation’s southern border unfolds, an organization claiming to fight for the vulnerable remains stone cold silent... That organization, the USCCB, went ballistic when President Donald Trump tried to build a wall to curtail the trafficking in human lives — especially children — and drugs that accompany the kind of open borders Pope Francis advocates. But since Joe Biden entered the White House, and especially since Title 42 expired, the bishops’ public stance resembles the stillness of Death Valley at midnight.

June 13, 2023

The Flight From Reality, by Regis Martin

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - There is the warhead that every bishop in the world needs to launch straightaway, that the human person is precisely a composite of two realities, body and soul, neither of which may suffer separation without doing violence to the person. We are not, after all, dualists, who, to quote Archbishop Coakley, imagine the human person as “the immaterial inhabitant of a physical host,” for whom the body in its very materiality may thus “be manipulated in service to the immaterial soul/mind/spirit.”

June 13, 2023

Bishops Invite Catholics to Pray Litany of Sacred Heart in Response to Dodgers’ ‘Blasphemy’, by Francesca Pollio Fenton

By Francesca Pollio Fenton, CNA - The United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) is inviting Catholics to join together in making an act of reparation for the act of “blasphemy” scheduled to take place at Dodgers Stadium on June 16 on the day the Catholic Church celebrates the solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus... The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, alongside the USCCB, is asking parishes across the country to pray the Litany of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 16 at Mass or during a Holy Hour with the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament.