Catholic Church

By Peter ODwyer, Church Militant - The article contends that the Rosary is becoming militarized by "Christian nationalists," an academic umbrella term often applied wholesale to the entire religious right. Panneton claims that Christian nationalists view the AR-15 as a "sacred object." He asserts that militarizing the Rosary is used by Catholic men as "a sort of a membership pass to the movement," imitating the way other Christians supposedly "revere" the AR-15. His evidence for this is memes and rhetoric from Catholics online, which allegedly reveal a rise in the militarization of the Rosary ...

By Madhava Setty, M.D., Children's Health Defense - Between July 2021 and July 23, 2022, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a series of changes to its “Facts about COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines,” including adding — and then removing — a statement assuring readers the mRNA and spike protein “do not last long in the body.”

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - After the publication of a rabble-rousing article in The Atlantic entitled “How the Rosary Became an Extremist Symbol,” some timid Catholics may be inclined to hide away their Rosary beads (assuming they can find them), to avoid being associated with extremism. Others are ready to scold The Atlantic for publishing such a bare-faced attack on Catholic devotion, and to assure the world that the Rosary is harmless. Both those approaches are wrong.

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing - The Catechism of the Council of Trent, also known as the “Roman Catechism,” devotes twelve dense pages to explaining the meaning of “lead us not into temptation.”  The catechism of the Second Vatican Council, simply called The Catechism of the Catholic Church, despite its extensive treatment of prayer, offers in contrast only four brief and independent bullet points  (Nos. 2846-9). The one is a masterpiece of elucidation, counsel, and argument; the other reads a bit like a PowerPoint slide.