Catholic Church

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - Chicago-born, George contracted polio as a boy.  He recovered, but suffered its painful aftereffects for the rest of his life.  His experience with the disease barred him from consideration for Chicago’s diocesan clergy, so he turned to religious life instead.  He rose to leadership and traveled globally for his order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, earned his doctorate in philosophy, and went on to serve as bishop of Yakima, Washington, and archbishop of Portland, Oregon, before his transfer to Chicago.  He was the city’s first native-born archbishop.

By John M. Grondelski, Crisis Magazine - Church steeples point men’s attention beyond the horizontal, the level of their eyes, and church bells are acoustic reminders of transcendence. Today’s world needs more, not less, of those reminders... (there is an) Italian “battle of the bells.”... new norms issued by the bishop of Savona-Noli to address what is apparently an ongoing controversy over the ringing of church bells. Opponents criticize their “acoustic pollution” and want curbs.

By Steven Ertelt, LifeNews - Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Catholic Diocese of Tyler, Texas condemned Biden’s comments and said he was engaging in “fake Catholocism.”... “Mr. Biden can’t be allowed to twist the words of Pope Francis in this way,” Strickland tweeted. “I implore the Vatican press office to emphatically clarify that Pope Francis rightly calls abortion murder. It is time to denounce Biden’s fake Catholicism.”

By Michael Voris, Church Militant - When Our Blessed Lord made Simon Bar-Jonah the head of the Apostles, He did so by saying, "And to you I give the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven." (Matthew 16:19) Notice: keys — plural — more than one key. That reality is expressed on the Vatican's flag, which has two keys. One key represents the pope's spiritual authority; the other represents his temporal authority...