Catholic Church

By Wendell Hull, Crisis Magazine - The saying goes that the people get the government they deserve. A bad tree yields a bad harvest of leaders. This follows the natural law that God has placed in the world. He also directly intervenes—at least the bishops of the Church have, in the past, held this to be the case. When Joshua followed God’s instructions, the walls of Jericho fell. When the Hebrews and their high priest, Aaron, chose to worship a calf, God was harsh but merciful in response.

By  Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, OMV, Catholic Exchange - I was momentarily confused and disoriented in my early years of seminary formation before I received a consoling advice from a priest in the confessional. He said to me, “Choose the right battle and everything else will fall into place.” I felt so relieved when it dawned on me that I did not have to face all my hassles and struggles at once but to seek the one that mattered most and devote all my energy to it. ...

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.”