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By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, the general relator of the 2021-2024 Synod on Synodality, also issued other bold statements this week including asserting that the idea of a Christian Europe is a “thing of the past,” that people should be accepted and not judged... (singling) out critics of the process, calling them afraid of a “Church on the move” and saying they “know they won’t be able to stop” the synodal experiment.

Fr. Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - Now Cardinal Robert McElroy... has joined Cardinal Hollerich with a wide-ranging essay in America magazine this week. Cardinal McElroy argues that the synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church is an opportune time to revisit — and revise — some doctrines of the Church. Among those are the question of priestly ordination for women, but his main focus was on “radical inclusion of L.G.B.T. people.”

By Dr. Donald DeMarco, Catholic Exchange - Saint Thomas Aquinas was born in the year 1224 in Rocca Sicca, Italy in the hereditary castle of the counts of Aquino in the Neapolitan province. While he was residing in the womb, a holy man brought a prophecy to the unborn child’s mother, Theodora, Countess Aquino: “Rejoice, O lady, for thou art to have a son whom thou shalt call Thomas…Such will be his learning and holiness that his equal will not be found throughout the world”... The prophecy was fulfilled and the world can rejoice.

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - One thinks of Max Frisch, and his line, “Technology is a way of organizing the world so that man does not have to experience it.”... I was amazed how a single, disembodied sentence could bring our entire mechanical civilization to heel. It explains how every one of our technical accomplishments involves a loss of something, not possible to replace... But the freedom that technology is alleged to confer is a false freedom