Catholic Church

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - “Let’s be plain: the Church has been in schism since 1968, if not earlier,” writes Michael Pakaluk... His choice of the year 1968 is a reference to Humanae Vitae, and the widespread resistance to that encyclical. But the problem of dissent goes far beyond that issue, he explains: Someone who believes that abortion is homicide in principle should be disposed to place his own life at the door of a clinic; someone who is merely “personally opposed” may be disposed to send SWAT teams to arrest this man. ...

By Teresa Hodgins, Catholic Exchange - Time has a funny significance to Catholics at this period of the year. The world around us is dying, transitioning to its winter dormancy. We are invited to ponder this death, and especially the deaths of loved ones as we pray for the souls suffering in Purgatory this month. However, we are not simply meant to rest in this death, as we soon after begin the preparation for the joyful event of Christmas—hope in the dead of winter.

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing - But moving the Chair of Peter aside, enough prominent Jesuits have said enough strange things lately to invite concern... In 2019, Father Arturo Sosa, the Jesuit superior general, suggested that Satan is a “symbolic reality,” not a personal being... This followed a similar Sosa remark about the devil from 2017 that then had to be clarified by a spokesman... Jesuit Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, the pope’s curious choice for relator general at the 2023-24 synod, has previously described Church teaching on homosexuality as “incorrect” ...

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant - "God is out of the picture" and "the Holy Spirit has absolutely nothing to do with it."... Bp. Rob Mutsaerts... excoriated the synodal process as "almost blasphemous" for providing "a megaphone for secular views" and mimicking a "sociological experiment" that is "unpastoral" and "unloving."... Mutsaerts... "Whereas our vocabulary once consisted of words such as 'our Mother the Church,' 'hellfire,' and 'virtues,' now it's all about Mother Earth, Amazonian fires and ecology," he wrote.