Catholic Church

By Janet E. Smith, Crisis Magazine - Conscience here is understood not as the place where the precepts of natural law are naturally known, the place where a person hears the voice of God. Rather, it is the repository of the values one has adopted through one’s choices; the moral agent has an obligation to obey his judgment rather than any teaching of the Church, any objective norm, any dictate of God.

By Edward Pentin, EWTN News - Catholic faithful are organizing a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., later this month to express gratitude for the revival of the traditional Latin Mass, and as a “public act of sorrow” over what they call “devastating new restrictions” on the celebration of the old Mass.... “The National Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage for the Restoration of the Latin Mass” will take place on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 9am, beginning at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in Arlington ...

By Michael J. Matt, Editor, The Remnant - This RTV Spotlight focuses on Pope Francis's bizarre bedfellows. How can a Catholic pope be taken seriously when his friends are a gaggle of pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage leftist lunatics?... Who is this guy, anyway?

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Moreover, whenever I am writing, I pray and therefore hope that this process of renewal will begin with myself. Each time I think and write about something, I am trying also to deepen and increase my own commitment to the Catholic understanding of that thing. If growth in holiness—growth in grace, growth in friendship with Christ—is not uppermost in my mind when I write, then I am in that instance failing in my vocation as the Catholic writer I claim to be.