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By Joseph Matt, Publisher, The Wanderer - If one did not know any better, one would think former President Bill Clinton schooled Pope Francis with his latest document on the blessing of homosexual unions. This current disaster from Rome is filled with the usual obfuscation and confusion that we have learned to expect from the Vatican, which will only divide faithful Catholics and welcome more attacks on the Catholic faith. One only has to read the words of “Father” Jim Martin’s remarks to tell you all you need to know about this document, “a major step forward in the church’s support for LGBT people.”

By Patrick O'Hearn, Catholic Exchange - The greatest in the kingdom are those who seek to be the lowliest. For this reason, St. Peter Eymard is counted among the greatest Eucharistic saints, perhaps even the greatest, well after Our Lady! He was particularly fond of the title, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament! It was Our Lady who guided him to love and prefer Jesus above everything... St. Peter Julian Eymard once beautifully wrote, “If we reflected on the love of Jesus Christ for us in the Blessed Sacrament, our whole life would be but one continuous act of love and gratitude.” Yes, a thousand lifetimes would never be enough for one devout reception of Holy Communion.

By Dan Hitchens, First Things - I have spent what feels like years parsing these much-debated Vatican documents, checking the exact translation of Italian words, badgering learned canonists and theologians for comments, comparing one sentence with another... in the era of Pope Francis, such “controversial” statements are generally less statements than black holes... A black hole, according to NASA, is “a great amount of matter packed into a very small area—think of a star ten times more massive than the Sun squeezed into a sphere approximately the diameter of New York City.”