Catholic Church

By David G Bonagura, Jr., The Catholic Thing - We all know the grim statistics: a mere quarter of Catholics attend Mass each Sunday. Half of those do not believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist... Taking these facts alone, the odds of our children and grandchildren navigating this gauntlet and remaining practicing Catholics are not good, to put it mildly.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - This sad case should confirm the enduring strength of the layman’s instinctive understanding that if a person is breathing, moving, heart beating, responding to stimuli—even with the help of machines—that person is not dead. Even after years of discussion about “brain death,” even in America’s most “enlightened” newsrooms, that gut instinct prevails.

By LifeSiteNews staff - Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet has been accused of sexual assault in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Archdiocese of Quebec... Arsenault Dufresne Wee Avocats, a Montreal-based law firm, says the accusation represents just one of the 101 alleged victims in the suit, who have accused approximately 88 priests and other members of the clergy in the Archdiocese of Quebec of sexual assault.

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.