Catholic Church

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - What is the Gospel? It’s an important question. What, in other words, is the “Good News,” the content of the message that we, the baptized, are to proclaim to the nations?... God so loved the world that he sent his only Son, incarnate of the Virgin, to suffer, die, and be raised again on the third day to save us from sin. What is more, in His goodness, God sent His Holy Spirit to guide and protect the Church – one, holy, catholic, and apostolic – to pour out His mercy and grace through the Sacraments, that we might grow in love of Him and of one another. ...

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - Bishop Athanasius Schneider has hit back at recent heretical statements made by San Diego’s Cardinal Robert McElroy, saying that prelates who “speak heresy” do so knowing they will not face punishment from Pope Francis... Bsp. Schneider made the comments in light of Cardinal McElroy’s two recently published articles in America magazine. McElroy attacked Catholic doctrine on the gravity of sexual sin and demanded that the Church allow “LGBT persons” along with divorced and “remarried” couples to receive the Eucharist while in mortal sin.

By Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, OMV, Catholic Exchange - (Asked by a) childhood friend of mine back in my native country of Nigeria a few weeks after I was ordained a priest. He said to me, “We have known each other very well all these years. Looking back now at your life before becoming a religious priest, do you have any regrets about your past?” I managed to stutter this reply to him then, “Having sorrow and contrition for my sins? Yes! Nurturing regrets about my past? No way!”

By San Diego Union Tribune, The Staff - The insurance carrier for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego filed a lawsuit Friday contending that because the diocese violated the terms of its insurance policies, the company should not have to pay out any money to settle claims from hundreds of people alleging they were victims of sexual abuse by clergy over the past several decades.