To the German Bishops: No, the Church Will Not Change
What is keeping the German bishops from leaving the Church? The Church, after all, will never change on the “pelvic issues” they care most about.
What is keeping the German bishops from leaving the Church? The Church, after all, will never change on the “pelvic issues” they care most about.
In this election there was one big red wave, the certainty of which has continued its all too predictable march through every precinct in the land, signaling yet another triumph at the polls for abortion.
In times past, it was everywhere understood that care of the soul was the principal function of the bishop’s office. Alas, that is no longer true.
The hysterics on the hard-Left are determined to hobgoblinize anyone who disagrees with them.
When it comes to the potential shutdown of the Diocese of Steubenville, the laity were ignored – so much for the virtues of synodality.
If the unfolding lunacy we see day after day coming out of Washington doesn’t lead to a red wave in November, then the whole country has gone crackers.
There can be no reason to commend a college or university to anyone if there is no connection between the life of the campus and the light of truth.
Art and poetry are vouchsafed to us by God for the purpose of giving voice to all that cannot be said but about which it would be an impoverishment to remain silent.
It is an axiom of membership among believing Roman Catholics that nothing matters more than the pursuit of holiness
One should open the mind only in order to close it on something solid. Reality is never the result of my mind thinking it but rather my receiving it.
The rising barbarism we see all around us cannot be ignored, nor can we withhold the medicine to cure it.
Here we see the pathos, the sheer sadness that impinges at every turn upon the pursuit and practice of justice. There can be no end to the business of making things fair, definitively and purely so. Not in this life anyway.Â
Our nation was built upon countless and nameless patriots who sacrificed for the country they loved.
America Magazine argues that no one should be banned from the Eucharist. No one? Really? What about the unbaptized? Are they free to receive? What about Satanists?
If deathly totalitarianism happened to Germany—which, for all its vaunted progress and sophistication, could not prevent its falling into barbarism—it can happen here.
St. Titus Brandsma, the martyred Carmelite priest from Holland who died at Dachau in 1942, stands out as perhaps the most compelling example for Catholics concerned about the threat of state-sponsored terror and tyranny.
Are children not the poorest of us all, their lives totally dependent upon the suffrage of others?
Pope Francis recommended that we “make a mess.” Well, a mess we have – perhaps it’s time to clean things up?
The pope exercises no authority on his own, all authority having come from Christ. He is not, therefore, above the Church’s Doctrine of the Faith, but rather he is its custodian and protector.
God takes our suffering entirely upon Himself, bearing it away in the fire of an infinite love. Who else but a God of love would dare to take on the world’s dereliction?