Catholic Church

EWTN News, The Editors - The controversial provisional agreement between the Vatican and the People’s Republic of China on the appointment of bishops that was first signed in September 2018 is up for renewal again this fall, and questions abound about the wisdom of Rome’s willingness to proceed... Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state and the point man on dialogue with China, defended the accord with China’s atheistic and authoritarian communist regime earlier this month.

By Peter Laffin, The Catholic Thing - Each time Barron bemoans “wokeness,” he is met with comments from the Left expressing a vague “disappointment.”.. Other offenses of Barron’s against progressive Catholicism include but are not limited to: his insistence that abortion is the preeminent moral issue of the age... On multiple scores, Barron is not a Churchman of the Left... But Barron is also not a traditionalist.

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant - On the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Pope Francis did not mention Jesus even once in his seven-minute address to an interfaith assembly in Kazakhstan... Instead, the pontiff demoted Jesus to one of the ways leading to the "Divine," substituted "human fraternity" for the Holy Trinity and emphasized that it is "fraternity that unites us as children of the same Heaven."