Catholic Church

By Melanie McDonagh, Catholic Herald - It’s almost 800 years since St Francis of Assisi died at the age of 44, but the man who preached to the birds and made friends with the wolf remains perhaps the most universally appealing Catholic saint... a show (will open) at the National Gallery in London which traces his life and legend and legacy in art all the way through those eight centuries to our own day... The (dir. of the gallery is) struck by the breadth of Francis’s appeal ....

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - So I guess Pope Francis said that the Church’s “catechesis on sex is still in diapers.” People have asked me what I think of that. My honest reply is, I’m sorry, but I don’t know what that means... after a lot of years of having people make dramatic statements like this, and me saying, “What does that mean?” and the speaker rolling his eyes as though to say, “You just don’t get it” (which is fair enough because, clearly, I don’t), I have come to the painful conclusion that these statements just aren’t meant for me.

By LifeSiteNews,  LifeSiteNews staff - A disgraced former cardinal has been charged in Wisconsin with sexual assault... Theodore McCarrick, 92, stands accused of assaulting an 18-year-old boy at a lakeside cabin in the south-eastern region of the state in 1977. According to Associated Press, the alleged victim told investigators that McCarrick had been sexually abusing him since he was 11 years old. He also alleged that McCarrick took him to parties where other men sexually assaulted him.