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February 26, 2019

After the Summit, by Robert Royal

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - Great winds – the venti russi (“Russian Winds”) – blew through Rome the last day of the summit on the protection of minors. They knocked down branches and toppled trees, killing several people. Many Catholics around the world – to judge from my correspondents – were also hoping that some great winds or flaming fire from the Holy Spirit would sweep through the Vatican and, in Old Testament fashion, carry away the timeservers and corrupt prelates who have given us Theodore McCarrick and his ilk.
February 25, 2019

Is the Church a Cage?, by Carl R. Trueman

By Carl R. Trueman, First Things - Is the Catholic Church a cage? The language of a recent New York Times article on the number of gay men in the Roman Catholic priesthood certainly implies that it is. The precise quotation comes from Father Bob Bussen, a priest in Utah: “Life in the closet is worse than scapegoating,” he said. “It is not a closet. It is a cage.”
February 21, 2019

Fr. Gerald E. Murray: Thank You, Cardinal Mueller

By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing - Now that the initial excitement has died down some, it’s a good time to take a calmer look at Cardinal Gerhard Mueller’s recently published Manifesto of Faith. He begins by quoting Our Lord: “Let not your hearts be troubled.” (Jn 14:1) Troubled, indeed, are the faithful in these days. The doctrinal and moral chaos in the Church is manifest and grave.
February 20, 2019

Authentic Prayer is the Only Answer, by David Torkington

By David Torkington, Catholic Stand - When a young priest told me that in seven years of training no one ever spoke about the importance of personal prayer, I found it hard to believe. But over the first few years of my tenure I found that far from being the exception to the rule, virtually everyone, priests and religious men and women described a similar experience.

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