Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The Gospel for Sunday’s Mass is from the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), specifically 5:17-37. In a way the Lord is drawing a picture for us of the transformed human person. He is presenting a kind of slide show of what sanctity really is. In understanding this rather lengthy text we do well to reflect on it in three parts.

By Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek, The Catholic Thing - Pope Francis recently had to clarify his affirmation that homosexual activity is a sin by recalling that, as with every sin, “one must also consider the circumstances which may decrease or eliminate fault.” True, but unfortunately, his reminder won’t help much. For sixty years, proponents of the New Morality have misinterpreted this teaching to permit those with mitigated culpability to continue damaging and sinful behavior.

By Zelda Caldwell, CNA - Bishop Barry Knestout of the Diocese of Richmond Feb. 13 called on members of Congress from Virginia to publicly condemn a leaked FBI memorandum that sought to link Catholics to violent extremists... According to the leaked FBI memo, “radical-traditional” Catholics who are interested in the Traditional Latin Mass are likely to have ties to “the far-right white nationalist movement.”

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - There is a correlation between behavior-related disease and behavior-related spiritual pathologies... Consider heart disease... Hypertension and the buildup of cholesterol silently threaten our health, with few obvious symptoms. Our inherited genes may predispose us to heart disease. But we commonly accelerate predisposed heart conditions through unhealthy practices.