Catholic Church

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI nears the end of his long and extraordinary life, the tussling over his legacy has already begun in earnest. In his native Germany, the “Synodal Way” appears intent on erasing fifty years of magisterial interpretation of the Second Vatican Council – a reading for which Joseph Ratzinger is as responsible as anyone save, perhaps, St. John Paul II. The Synodal Way is a sort of referendum on his life’s work and legacy.

By Catholic Vote - Concerned Catholic parents have launched a petition confronting the Archdiocese of Washington over its unbending vaccination requirements, including for children in the region’s Catholic schools... “We, the undersigned, parents and faithful of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, have undertaken to fulfill our God-given right and duty to educate our children fully in the Catholic faith..."

By Jonathan Liedl, EWTN News - Last month, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, the relator general of the unfolding Synod on Synodality, stated that proposed reforms in the life of the Church “need a stable foundation.”... During an interview with the German Catholic news agency KNA, Cardinal Hollerich stated that Church teaching related to homosexuality “is false,” because the “sociological-scientific foundation of this teaching is no longer correct.”

By Trevor Alcorn, OnePeterFive - As the Rosary Rally in defense of the Latin Mass drew to a close, what was readily apparent was that the faithful displayed an undying love for the patrimony of the Latin Rite that was more than an indication of a liturgical “preference.” The faithful that endured numb toes and fingers on the frigid Chicago winter day were there for a liturgy and sacramental life that gives superior spiritual nourishment to them and their children.