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By Diane Montagna, LifeSiteNews - The Vatican has been caught up in a scandal over a drug-fueled New Year’s Eve party in Rome attended by minors and featuring Italy’s “most alternative, underground and political queer” techno band… Yet a closer look reveals that the far-left activists illegally managing the building.. are running tax-free businesses in the complex, including a disco that hosts homosexual rave parties. This raises the question: Why is the Vatican supporting a radical far-left group that is creating a potentially abusive environment for families, minors and children?

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant - As satanism becomes increasingly normal among young people, a violent mentality is accelerating… "Secularization leaves a void," he said, explaining that alongside it is a "sort of spiritual, ideological and also cultural void. Young people do not have anything to satisfy their spiritual and profound needs. They are thirsting for something, and the Church is not attractive anymore.".. Young people no longer see the scandal-ridden and aging Church as a valid alternative in Western society, Dermine noted, "so they try to find something elsewhere. This something is, many times, the demonic world."

By Fr. Mark Withoos, Crisis Magazine - In celebrating the centenary of the consecration and dedication to God of the Cathedral of Saints Mary and Joseph, we are in a sense celebrating the 100th anniversary of our cathedral’s “baptism”. At our own baptism we are anointed with sacred chrism and thereby consecrated or set apart for the glory of God and to offer sacrifice to the one true living God. So, too, one hundred years ago today, the magnificent high altar of our cathedral was anointed with chrism and by this anointing was consecrated.

By Christine Niles, M.St. (Oxon.), J.D., Church Militant - Dan Burke, chief operating officer and president of EWTN News, announced his resignation Tuesday in a post on his website: In the end, my decision is based upon a combination of the deep wounds in the Church, my own mortality with respect to the years I have remaining, and my assessment of where I can have the greatest impact on healing the Church and advancing the mission Jesus has entrusted to every baptized Christian: "Go unto all the world and make disciples."