Catholic Church

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - At some point in any leadership situation, we have to evaluate the fruits of that leadership. It isn’t enough to assume that someone means well and ignore the results... This is especially true for Catholic bishops. It is utterly insufficient to speculate as to whether a particular bishop’s “heart is in the right place”, or whether many people find him “warm and likeable”. At some point, we have to ask about practical results: Is the number of priests growing?

By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange - This Sunday, we celebrate Jesus’ gift of His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity in the Eucharist to His Church and the world. Yet our Gospel takes us back to the feeding of the five thousand. Why?... On this solemnity of Corpus Christi, we might expect our Gospel to be an account of the Last Supper, in which Jesus first pronounced the words of institution of the Eucharist. However, St. Luke points us in a slightly different direction.

By Anthony Stine, Return to Tradition - Francis has elevated a number of highly questionable prelates to senior positions in the roman curia recently and elevated more questionable junior members of the episcopate to their first positions as the local ordinary of their own dioceses and many of them have something in common that a lot of people aren’t really talking about.