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By David L. Gray, ThM, Catholic Stand - Chapter Four, “Truth, Work, Freedom,” is where the encyclical’s promise thins. Having diagnosed an “anti-human vision” that equates fullness with “having more” (§112), Leo arrives at work and retreats into the familiar grammar of Rerum Novarum and Laborem Exercens: the value of work, the dignity of the worker, the problem of unemployment, fair remuneration, “an economy that values dignity.”... Leo defends the worker’s place within that system; he does not imagine what labor might be when that system no longer needs most human labor. This is the document’s central omission, and it is a theological one before it is an economic one....

By McKenna Snow, Zeale News - The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) announced May 26 the names of the four priests chosen to be ordained bishops in July, weeks after the Vatican doctrinal chief declared warned that the ordinations, which lack papal approval, would “constitute ‘a schismatic act.’”... In its announcement, the SSPX stated that its superior general, Father Davide Pagliarani, maintains that the episcopal consecrations neither challenge nor deny the Pope’s authority over the Church.

By Fr. Kevin Drew, Catholic Exchange - Why does the Sign of Peace take place after the Our Father, right before Holy Communion? It almost seems to be in a bad location at Holy Mass. At the large parishes I’ve been at through the years, things got loud and disruptive. I would start singing the Lamb of God at the top of my lungs to get people to be quiet. And sometimes I’d get dirty looks for interrupting the community ritual of back slapping and shaking of hands.