Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - A common question arising around the time of Trinity Sunday is rooted in this passage from John’s Gospel: If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I (Jn 14:28)... This is somewhat puzzling because we are taught that each Divine Person of the Blessed Trinity fully possesses the nature of God and is equally to be adored and glorified. What, then, did Jesus mean when He said, “the Father is greater than I”? ...

By Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, OMV, Catholic Exchange - I have had the great privilege of offering Mass several times in the many convents of the Missionaries of Charity sisters. So, I am used to seeing these words in a prominent place in the sacristy where priests prepare for Holy Mass: “Priest of Jesus Christ, celebrate this Holy Mass as if it were your first Mass, your last Mass, your only Mass... There is a double invitation in these words to all the faithful, particularly to the priest, if we are going to experience the powerful transforming power of each Mass. 

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Why are the Los Angeles Dodgers honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group whose stock-in-trade is provoking the outrage of Catholics? Is it because these days nobody is worried about Catholic outrage?... The Dodgers .. deserve special notice, because they had originally withdrawn their invitation to the SPI, after an initial burst of protest from Catholics, and then they renewed it.

By Louis Knuffke, LifeSiteNews - Bishop Joseph Stickland of Tyler, Texas, called out dissident pro-LGBT Jesuit Fr. James Martin for blasphemously claiming that celebrating Pride Month is compatible with devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to whom the month of June is traditionally dedicated in Catholic devotion... “This blasphemy must stop, God loves every person even the most sinful, but saying sinful acts are compatible with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ contradicts Christ’s call to go & sin no more…”