News – Page 1194 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

March 1, 2024

Bishop Mutsaerts: “In 2000 Years, We Have Never Seen So Many People Oppose A Roman Declaration”

By Javier Arias, Info Vaticana - I can bless thieves, but not their activities. I can bless homosexuals, but not their union. I do not rule out that Pope Francis takes new steps in the direction he has taken. But we also know that where there is no continuity there is a break with tradition. We haven’t seen that before in 2,000 years. That there is a break with Tradition may be evident by the resistance. In 2000 years, we have never seen so many people – not even an entire continent – oppose a Roman Declaration.

March 1, 2024

Why Are CALIFORNIA Bishops Blasting Ken Paxton for Trying to Curb Illegal Immigration in TEXAS? by McKenna Snow

By McKenna Snow, Catholic Vote - Might these bishops be concerned about the millions of dollars they receive in taxpayer funds to aid illegal aliens?... The Catholic bishops of California this week released a statement expressing their support of the Texas bishops and the Annunciation House... TX Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on February 20 that he filed a lawsuit... after his office “reviewed significant public record information strongly suggesting” that the House was “facilitating illegal entry to the United States, alien harboring, human smuggling, and operating a stash house.”

March 1, 2024

Contraception Regret at Red Lobster, by Kennedy Hall

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - No amount of money or personal development in education or the business world is worth the pain that comes with the regret of closing yourself to new life... Last weekend we decided to take a trip across the border to Port Huron, Michigan, to do a bit of shopping. Like the majority of Canadians who make the same international trip in search of lower prices and cheap gas, we shopped at Hobby Lobby, Target, and T.J. Maxx. I may have stopped into Wild Bill’s Tobacco Shop to stock up…Who am I kidding?

March 1, 2024

Renewing the Moral Life While Renouncing the Tyranny of the Banal, by Carl E. Olson

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report - And this brings us back to where we started, with St. John XXIII’s inaugural address. The council rightly saw that we need to take the logic of the Mass and proclaim it with new analogies, images, and fervor, in order to wrest back our imaginations from the increasingly secular world. But we haven’t succeeded. In part because the epistemological categories of the modern West are so powerful, and its lure so seductive, that we’re like the protagonist in La Dolce Vita, half remembering what we once knew through a haze. ...