Catholic Church

By Julian Kwasniewski, The Catholic Thing - What does a man need? Solar panels and plastic-looking rows of identical apartments? Sustainable electricity to power humanity’s pocket palantirs (AKA “smart” phones)?... Or mountains with golden sunsets, and Venetian music with brass ensembles? On the one hand, we have artificiality, made by man and for man; on the other, creation and sub-creation made by God and for God, but for this reason uplifting and bringing a sense of completion to man as man.

By Tyler Arnold, Catholic News Agency - “Bishop Olson denied Mother Superior’s right to independent canonical (Church law) representation with three different canon lawyers (advocates) and one procurator,” Bobo said in a statement. “Mother Superior rejects any and all representation by her current canon lawyer, appointed by the bishop without her consent, who is not independent nor representing her canonical or natural law rights.”

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant - Three former Catholic students are suing Cdl. Seán O'Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, for covering up alleged sex abuse by a former principal of the Arlington Catholic School... "Cardinal O'Malley has failed woefully in protecting children within the archdiocese of Boston, never mind worldwide," attorney Mitchell Garabedian told reporters Monday.

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine - Meanwhile, while the Mass was being revised, there really was difficult and urgent work for the Church to do. And that work was neglected—not necessarily by the documents produced by the second Vatican council, but certainly by almost all of what was done later on, invoking the ethereal and indefinite specter of the council, as if cloak-room whisperings and discussions over a bottle of wine had the character of the Holy Spirit... The most obvious work to be done was to rouse up the faithful against the ubiquitous propaganda of the sexual revolution, the Lonely Revolution. Ages of sexual license are not new in human affairs. But for the first time ever, the license was fueled with contraceptive pills ...