Catholic Church

By Jim Graves, EWTN News - Thoughts from Archbishop Joseph Naumann, and Bishops Ronald Gainer, Liam Cary, Thomas Tobin, Michael Burbidge, Thomas Paprocki, Joseph Coffey, Joseph Strickland and Timothy Freyer... I asked nine active Catholic bishops working in different parts of the United States to comment on issues of public policy and culture they thought important to the country. The following are their thoughts. ...

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - The work of “Popesplaining” is bound to produce frustration, because Pope Francis rarely clarifies his problematical statements. (Dubia, anyone?) I admire the loyal Catholics who take it upon themselves to explain away difficulties, confident that the Supreme Pontiff would endorse their arguments. But he never does. On the contrary, when his subsequent statements shed more light on his true intentions, they usually underline the problems.

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - The Catholic tradition is, by its very nature, a dynamic mix of things old and new. Without the old – things that even go back beyond all memory into the mists of time to the very beginning – we would not be anchored in what the Creator intended when He brought us into existence on this earth. Neither would we know how He then revealed Himself to us, in historical stages, as the times required.