Catholic Church

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.

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine - As our readers no doubt are aware, Cardinal Cupich has restricted Eucharistic adoration in the archdiocese of Chicago. It is rather like making sure that a weak and spindly child will spend as little time as possible outdoors exercising the muscles that he hardly has so that they might grow strong... In this regard, the cardinal is conforming the Church to the pattern of the world about him, a non-pattern, actually, without meaning, without cultural memory and devotion, and without hope.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - We live in times in which mercy, like so many other things, has become a detached concept in people’s minds, separated from the things that really help us to understand it. For indeed, mercy makes sense and is necessary because we are sinners in desperate shape. Yet many today think it unkind and unmerciful to speak of sin as sin. Many think that mercy is a declaration that God doesn’t really care about sin, or that sin is not a relevant concept.

By John Zmirak, The Stream - So we must be wise as serpents when dealing with such people. And that’s why I find myself writing more and more about Satan and his fallen minions. We’re called on to “hate the sin, but love the sinner.” Satan does the opposite, hating the sinner but loving the sin. He can’t always con human beings into adopting his infernal posture, so he will settle for this: Insisting that in order to love the sinner, you must love the sin. You must in fact deny that it’s a sin, or else you’re “judging” people, and you’ll be judged yourself.