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By Msgr. Charles Pope - Who would ever do what the shepherd of the lost sheep does or what the woman with the lost coin does? Probably no one. Likewise, the father in the Prodigal Son parable breaks all the rules of “tough love.” His forgiveness has an almost reckless quality to it. No father in Jesus’ time would ever have tolerated such insolence from his sons. So all three of these parables, on one level, are just plain crazy… But that is one of the fundamental points Jesus seems to be making here: The Heavenly Father’s love for us is just plain “crazy.”

By LifeSiteNews staff - Bishop Paprocki made headlines following the passage of the Reproductive Health Act in Illinois in 2019 which declared abortion a “fundamental right. Paprocki issued a statement in accordance with Canon 915 which barred pro-abortion Catholic legislators from receiving Holy Communion in the Diocese of Springfield. Paprocki wrote that legislators who “obstinately persisted in promoting the abominable crime” of abortion will only be readmitted to Communion “after they have truly repented these grave sins” and “made suitable reparation for damages and scandal.” In 2018, he specifically barred U.S. Senator Dick Durbin from receiving Holy Communion.

By P. Bracy Bersnak, Crisis Magazine - By his own account, St. Ignatius struggled with the temptation to vainglory throughout his life. When a young Jesuit confided his difficulties with vainglory to Ignatius, by then old and wise in the ways of the spiritual life, Ignatius tried to encourage him by revealing that he too struggled with the vice. This had the unintended effect of encouraging the young priest so much that he and some other Jesuits implored Ignatius to write down the story of his life so that they could benefit from its lessons. That story shows Ignatius’s proneness to vainglory and, through the grace of God, his triumph over it.

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register - The latest development in what is becoming increasingly viewed as both a purge and a revolution of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute is the hiring of two moral theologians whose views on homosexuality and contraception contradict the magisterium… The new professors, Father Maurizio Chiodi and Father Pier Davide Guenzi, both moral theologians at the University of Northern Italy in Milan, will begin teaching at the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences as part of its 2019-2020 curriculum announced this week.