Catholic Church

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - The main culture-forming institutions – colleges and universities, media, Hollywood, the arts, even corporations – sharply limit open expressions of religion, which is to say primarily traditional Christianity, anywhere they can. We can still worship privately, but we can do less publicly than ever before in our history.

By Fr. Bill Peckman, Roman Catholic Man - When a diocese or parish presents itself as a business, it takes on that retail vibe. In other words, I am here to convince you to buy what I am selling. The mission of the Church gets reduced to a package of goods or various worth. The mission gives way to marketing. A lot of time, programs within our churches come across very much this way. ...

By Jack Bingham, LifeSiteNews - The MC for the event spoke... “From the west side we have the wind, the oxygen that we breathe, this is the government of Mother Earth. And on the north side we have Mother Earth, Mother Earth is who we are... "Mother Earth is all the plant life, Mother Earth, our mother, is also the mother of all insect life, Mother Earth is also the mother of all animals on the ground, in the water, in the air.”... “Mother Earth, is of course, the Mother of all humanity,” added the ceremonial leader, as the dancing continued with Francis and the Chiefs looking onward at the ritual.

By T. S. Flanders, OnePeterFive - The Bishop of Washington, DC, His Most Reverend Eminence Cardinal Wilton Gregory, has now “followed the Holy Father” in marginalising a certain group of the faithful, the “majority” of whom he calls “sincere, faith-filled, and well-meaning.” But they happen to be attached to “what earlier generations held as sacred,” as Benedict XVI put it. Does this, as Benedict decreed, “remain sacred and great for us today”?