Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - In the wake of the COVID-19 explosion of fear, we do well to begin reflecting on fear. Fear is a complex passion. On the one hand, there are things that we ought to fear such as grave physical and spiritual dangers. The fear of being near the edge of a cliff might well save our life.

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Anti-Catholic protests at our very churches are something we thought ended long ago in an America that professes religious pluralism. You only see these sorts of threats to religious institutions these days in outright tyrannies like China, Middle Eastern and African countries where militant Islam has a free hand, or countries like the pope’s homeland, Argentina, where real extremists – radical feminist groups – firebomb Catholic churches, which have to be protected by Catholic laymen, since police forces are insufficient to do the job.

By Robert B. Greving, Crisis Magazine - However, by merely overturning Roe, I believe the opinion unjust. It leaves the broader—and ultimate—question unanswered. Is that child in the womb a person or not? Is that boy or girl protected by our Constitution or not? I would have preferred that the Court “follow the science” and go further, recognizing the right of the unborn child. It would have been the legally and biologically right thing to do. As hysterical as the Left is about the opinion, the majority probably went as far as they could and showed restraint. I wish they hadn’t.