Catholic Church

By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine -

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia is clearly one of the worst of those bishops who are so highly favored by Pope Francis, and his continued favor amply demonstrates what we can only call the Pope’s “lessness”—that is, either “recklessness” or “fecklessness”. It would require supernatural insight to speak of “faithlessness”, but it does not take a supernatural observer to see the damage that is being done.

By Paul Senz, Catholic World Report - Ave Maria University was founded in 1998 as Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. In 2007 the campus was moved to Florida, and it added graduate programs, making it a full-fledged university... Founded by Tom Monaghan – founder of Domino’s Pizza and a prominent Catholic philanthropist – the university inaugurated its fourth president, Mark Middendorf, last year... Middendorf: This university is an answer to what St. John Paul II asked all laity in Ex Corde Ecclesiae. ECE says that Catholic universities are essential to the growth of the Church.

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Early in his pontificate, Pope Francis often referred to Lord of the World, a 1907 novel by Fr. Robert Hugh Benson about an apocalyptic clash between two opposing forces... One is the Catholic Church, renewed and purified, surviving only marginally in small pockets of believers in various counties, but potently ruling over Rome and a large area around the Eternal City, where 6,000,000 Catholics have gathered – a concession by the Italian government in exchange for the Church giving up its claims in the rest of the country....