Catholic Church

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - But even more egregious is McElroy’s very cagey statement on immoral sexual acts: The effect of the tradition that all sexual acts outside of marriage constitute objectively grave sin has been to focus the Christian moral life disproportionately upon sexual activity…. Sexual activity, while profound, does not lie at the heart of this hierarchy [of truths]. Yet in pastoral practice we have placed it at the very center of our structures of exclusion from the Eucharist. This should change.

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - But what you would be very unlikely to hear is “lack of funding for Catholic schools.” And yet it was not always so. Catholics in the 1960s, once segregation on the basis of race had been abolished, were prepared to cite discrimination against the entire Catholic population in schooling as the major lingering structural injustice in the United States.

By Stephen Kokx, LifeSiteNews - Butker, a Georgia Tech alumnus, is one of the league’s most consistent kickers with a career 88.1% accuracy rating, placing him fourth all time. He’s also one of the NFL’s most well-known — and most devout — followers of Christ... Butker’s Catholic faith has been the subject of multiple reports since he was drafted in 2017. As a member of the Knights of Columbus, Butker was profiled on their YouTube channel in October 2019. He was also the focus of an EWTN report that year, during which he expressed a great love for the Traditional Latin Mass.

By Susan Hanssen, Crisis Magazine - When Benedict XVI visited the United States in 2008, he repeatedly expressed his admiration for America’s pluralistic society and respect for religious liberty. Benedict XVI and John Paul II shared a vision of the United States as the opponent of totalitarianism that had been shaped profoundly by their own experience of Nazi Germany and Communist Poland... The death of Benedict XVI is a marker of the death of the “Greatest Generation,” a generational shift we have been culturally experiencing for the 20 years that have opened this century.