Catholic Church

By Paul Murano, Church Militant - The USCCB is at it again. Michael Hichborn of the Lepanto Institute is reporting our bishops are partnering with a coalition that supports abortion... It's not the first exposé the Lepanto Institute has done on how the U.S. bishops spend Catholic money. Hichborn has been warning Catholics for years that groups like Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) indirectly support anti-Catholic agendas.

By Greg Cook, Crisis Magazine - A new Vatican document proposes to give guidance for Catholic investors based on Catholic social teaching, but often falls into regurgitating liberal talking points on redistribution and environmental awareness... In light of the scandals exposing the Vatican’s misuse of money, its recent release of ethical investing guidelines might seem like too little too late. Nonetheless, Mensuram Bonam, from Cardinal Peter Turkson and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, is news.

By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine - But the question remains: Why? What was so awful about the pre-Vatican II Church that its memory needs to be obliterated and those who hold to doctrines that are ancient in provenance must be labeled as “rigid” and psychologically damaged? I should be clear, I don’t think there are any good reasons for this, and some of this must be attributed to ill feeling on his part. Francis clearly sees people who are somehow “backward” as opponents, and he clearly wishes they would go away.

CNSNews Staff - The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes “homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity” that are “intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to natural law.”... “Under no circumstances can they be approved,”... “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,’”