News – Page 142 – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

February 23, 2024

If Peter Is the Rock, Where is the Pope? by Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - While we celebrate the certainty and unity that the See of Peter has brought to our faith over the centuries, the past decade has forced Catholics to question the nature of papal authority. When does a Pope teach with magisterial authority? When is he speaking for himself, and when does he represent Peter, the rock on whom the Lord built his Church?... These questions are tackled in a new book: "Super Hanc Petram: The Pope and the Church at a Dramatic Moment in History", by Father Serafino Lanzetta ....

February 22, 2024

Is Censorship a National Security Imperative? by Douglas Andrews

By Douglas Andrews, Patriot Post - Here’s The Federalist’s normally sober-minded John Daniel Davidson: “If you didn’t see Tucker Carlson’s interview last week with Mike Benz, you need to take an hour and watch the whole thing. In a mind-bending narrative about the emergence of what Benz calls ‘military rule’ through an online censorship industry in the U.S., he lays out in startling detail just how corrupt and tyrannical the U.S. defense and foreign policy establishment has become.”

February 22, 2024

Msgr. Charles Pope: From Perfunctory Penitence to Compelling Confession In Four Easy Steps

By Msgr. Charles Pope - For many people the Sacrament of Confession is experienced in a rather perfunctory way. Upon preparing to go to confession many are content to look at some matters pertaining to external behavior: “I got angry with my children….I had lustful thoughts…. I was distracted in prayer, or I didn’t pray as much as I should…. I gossiped….and so forth. While the confession of these sorts of things is good and proper it also remains true that, for confession to really heal, it is necessary to go deeper. It is necessary to examine the deeper drives and motives of sin; to examine not only what I have done, by to ponder why.

February 22, 2024

Texas Attorney General Targets Catholic Nonprofit, Alleges it Facilitates Illegal Immigration, by Tyler Arnold

By Tyler Arnold, CNA - Texas AG Ken Paxton is trying to shut down a Catholic nonprofit organization in El Paso based on allegations that the group may be facilitating illegal immigration, harboring immigrants who entered the country illegally, and engaging in human smuggling... “The chaos at the southern border has created an environment where [nongovernmental organizations] funded with taxpayer money from the Biden administration facilitate astonishing horrors including human smuggling,” Paxton said in a statement. “While the federal government perpetuates the lawlessness destroying this country ....