Catholic Church

By Fr. Leon Pereira O.P., Dominican Friars, England, Wales and Scotland - Chesterton said that orthodoxy was the only exciting thing; by contrast heresy is boring, because it rehashes old things in new packaging. Only orthodoxy captures the imagination, and makes new beginnings and new ways possible. In the Church also, evil deforms and perverts the Faith. Evil does not engender faith. Heresy does not breed a new generation, because it is contracepted and sterilised. Therefore it seeks to propagate itself by commandeering and imposing itself on others, like a virus.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - One of the ideological emphases of our contemporary religious and moral culture is “inclusion”. I say “ideological” because the imperative to be “inclusive” has become yet another “ism”—though we usually call it “inclusivity” rather than “inclusivism”. Now “isms” are always viewpoints that override everything else and cause us to interpret all things from the perspective of the “ism” in question. I often remark that the only legitimate “ism” is Catholicism, precisely because it means universal, and so excludes nothing that is real.

By William Mahoney, Ph.D., Church Militant - Wiltgen shows how these countries unified to put their own men in control. The group consisted of liberal-bent prelates and periti, or theological advisors, such as Austrian Cdl. Franz König, Swiss Jesuit Hans Küng, French Dominican Yves Congar, German Jesuit Karl Rahner, German Cdl. Julius Döpfner, German Cdl. Augustin Bea and Dutch Cdl. Bernardus Alfrink with his private Dominican adviser, Edward Schillebeeckx. ...

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Absent a clear recognition that the Spirit always leads the Church and preserves the essential deposit of the faith, the Synod on Synodality is all too likely to devolve into a sociological/therapeutic discussion, drawing attention and strength (away) from the essentials of Catholic doctrine and moral teaching. Is this the future vision of the Catholic Church: as a debating society for discussion of personal and social disorders? In his cover letter accompanying the USCCB synthesis, Bishop Daniel Flores says that “synodality is not a one-time event, but an invitation to an ongoing style of Church life.” I’m afraid he’s right.