Catholic Church

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The problem is that one vote is all but meaningless in any political entity larger than an ancient Greek city state. The result of democracy in large countries has always been the disempowerment of the vast majority of people, because what democracy tends to produce is a large group of atomized individuals, each of whom is essentially powerless against the will of those who actually wield the power of the State.

By Emily Mangiaracina, LifeSiteNews - Louisiana is pulling $794 million in treasury funds from the asset management behemoth BlackRock over its woke “green energy” priorities... “Your blatantly anti-fossil fuel policies would destroy Louisiana’s economy,” the state’s treasurer, John Schroder, wrote in a letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink... Louisiana’s treasurer has explained that BlackRock’s embrace of “net zero” Energy, Social, and Governance (ESG) investment strategies would harm the state’s oil and natural gas industry ...

By  Michael J. Matt, Editor, The Remnant - As part of (the) happy event (40th anniversary of the French organization responsible for the Chartres Pilgrimage), Cardinal Robert Sarah, former prefect of the Cong. for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, was supposed to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass in the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris... Archbishop of Paris, Laurent Bernard Marie Ulrich, has decided to cancel Cardinal Sarah, prohibiting him from offering that important anniversary Mass in Paris.

By Sabrina Ferrisi, EWTN News - According to the CDC, suicide is considered a leading cause of death in the US, with about one death every 11 minutes. In 2020, 1.2 million American adults attempted suicide, while 46,000 people actually died by suicide. Mental illness in general is also widespread, with the National Institute for Mental Health estimating that 5.6% of adult Americans suffer from severe mental illness... Despite these numbers, the Catholic Church does not have a formal mental-health ministry across the country.