Catholic Church

By Sarah Cain, Crisis Magazine - In today’s world, most of the battles that beleaguer our finite time aren’t going to matter to us when, on our deathbed, we reflect upon our lives one last time before meeting God face-to-face. Most likely, in our final moments ... Aren’t we more likely to reflect on the good we left undone as we wonder where the time of our lives went?

By Msgr. Charles Pope, EWTN News - The Gospel for Sunday’s Mass is from the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). The Lord is drawing a picture for us of the transformed human person... He sets forth the principle “I have come not to abolish but to fulfill [the Law].” To “fulfill” means to fill something until it is full; to exceed the minimum requirements. ...

By Louis Knuffke, LifeSiteNews - A Catholic priest has rebuked Pope Francis for his calls to decriminalize sodomy during his recent visit to African countries South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The priest called the Pope to repent of his promotion of homosexuality, addressing the Pontiff in a video and asking, “Do you belong to Christ, or do you belong to Sodom?”... Fr. Jason Charron posted to YouTube a video in which he took the Pope to task for making homosexuality more central to his ministry than the defense of persecuted Christians and the preaching of the Gospel, including the call to repent of sin.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Since Pope Francis issued Traditionis Custodes, restricting the use of the traditional Latin Mass, some bishops have issued dispensations, allowing their priests to continue using the Tridentine liturgy. Now Cardinal Arthur Roche, the prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship, has ruled that bishops do not have the authority to grant those dispensations. But now a new question arises: Does Cardinal Roche have the authority to make that ruling?