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By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine - Not that any of those descriptions are true. My first (and thus far only) spiritual director was a career Navy pilot and U.S. Naval Academy graduate before he donned the collar. The parochial vicar at my last parish in Virginia, a man of impeccable integrity, served in the U.S. Air Force. During multiple tours in Afghanistan, I had the honor of getting to know about a half-dozen chaplains, Catholic and Protestant, who were not only good men but had endured great hardship and seen just as much combat as many of the enlisted men to whom they ministered.

By Michael Haynes, LifeSiteNews - Pope Francis has asked the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to “review” the case of alleged serial abuser Father Marko Rupnik, the Vatican said in a new statement, days after outrage spread through the Church when news broke of Rupnik’s incardination into a new diocese... In a brief message issued October 27, the Holy See Press Office issued one of the only interventions which has been officially made by the Vatican on the case of Fr. Rupnik since news of his alleged abuses broke just under a year ago.

By Gerhard Cardinal Müller, First Things - Any attempt to transform the Church founded by God into a worldly NGO will be thwarted by millions of Catholics. They will resist to the death the transformation of the house of God into a market of the spirit of the age, for the whole of the faithful, anointed as they are by the Holy One, cannot err in “matters of belief” (Lumen Gentium). We face a globalist program of a world without God, in which a power elite proclaims itself the creator of a new world and ruler of the disenfranchised masses. That program and power elite cannot be countered by a “Church without Christ,” one that abandons the Word of God in Scripture and Tradition as the guiding principle of Christian action, thought, and prayer (Dei Verbum).