Catholic Church

By Fr. James V. Schall, Crisis Magazine - One of the principal tasks of the Church is to teach the truth handed down to it and further deepen revelation through its light. Ignorance and error are not virtues, however prevalent they might be. Errors of mind are not neutral and need clearly to be identified and counteracted. Ratzinger’s successor, Pope Francis, has downplayed or eschewed this aspect of the papal office. Thus, writers who attend to Catholic intellectual tradition today habitually, for clarity and insight, return to the works of Joseph Ratzinger.

By Msgr. Chalres Pope - To have such a renowned theologian as pope makes one think of Pope Gregory the Great who like Pope Benedict would have preferred the quiet of the monastery to the heavy weight of the chair of Peter... Neither Gregory or Benedict had it easy. Tumultuous waves rocked the barque of Peter during Gregory’s time as the Roman Empire continued to crumble and the Lombards made their steady advance. Pope Benedict XVI endured the storms of the collapsing Western culture, lamenting that the lights were going out in Europe and he warned us of the “dictatorship of relativism” that we now know all too well.

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - Like every good mother, Mary held her Baby, fed Him, and protected Him. During the early formative years, children seem like a burden and require high-maintenance care. But these selfless expressions of love are not self-aware reasons for love; they’re instinctual and spontaneous. A mother’s love and affection for a baby are mysterious.

LifeSiteNews - Heretic bishops and cardinals are working overtime to destroy the culture of life, family values, and even natural law. Watch now and see what was exposed just three months ago regarding Pope Francis’ secret meeting with cardinals and the remaining influence of disgraced cardinal Theodore McCarrick. The globalist effort to destroy the Church is impacting all areas of the traditional Catholic world — even into the perilous future of the Latin Mass. Watch now and see the fight that the culture of life must win.