Karl Keating Steps Down at Catholic Answers
This is good news for Catholic Answers and will open up a lot of new possibilities. Christopher Check is now President — a good move. You can read the official announcement here:...
View ArticleMichael Coren Flops Again, this Time Joining the Anglican Church…what group...
So, a floppy commentator and author leaves the Catholic Church to become an Anglican. Michael Coren has seemed uncertain for a long time and switching around from one tradition to another. My guess is...
View ArticleDraft of Pope’s Environment Encyclical Leaked: 12 Things You Should Know
Jimmy Akin has done a great job summarizing the situation and the encyclical to-date. It starts out: With just days to go before the release of Pope Francis’s highly anticipated encyclical on the...
View ArticleHard to Find Good News Sources? Check out this List
Thanks to Teresa Tomeo, I am passing along this excellent list of reputable news sources from a Catholic perspective. The National Catholic Register online Vatican News Agency Our Sunday Visitor...
View ArticleIf Divorce and Remarriage are OK …
If divorce and remarriage becomes acceptable (or gay marriage) then did St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher die for nothing? Was John the Baptist beheaded for nothing? King Henry VIII was right after...
View ArticleConscience and Communion and Marital Issues
STEVE RAY HERE: After the excerpts from an interview with Archbishop Cupich there has been a lot of discussion raging around the issue of conscience and divorce and remarriage and gay marriage. There’s...
View ArticleWatching Rush of Wind and Flutter of Wings over the Vatican
This morning Janet and I are in Rome for a few days awaiting our pilgrimage group as we embark across Italy and then by ship voyaging around Greece and Turkey to follow the footprints of St. Paul and...
View ArticleNevada Catholic churches targeted in bizarre string of protests
Las Vegas, Nev., Dec 10, 2015 / 03:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Las Vegas Catholics are disturbed after self-described Muslim-turned-Christian protestors disrupted Masses at several churches in the...
View ArticleJimmy Akins: “Pope Francis Speaks on Hot-Button Issues: 9 Things to Know and...
[Also see Janet Smith's Article in Catholic World Report also: Contraception Congo Nuns Choosing the Lesser Evil and Conflict of Commandments] Pope Francis Speaks on Hot-Button Issues: 9 Things to...
View ArticleMisunderstanding the (alleged) “Congo Contraception” Case
Misunderstanding the (alleged) ‘Congo contraception’ case by Dr. Edward Peters, Canon Lawyer, Professor at Sacred Heart Seminary, Advisor to the Vatican Even by the standards of his reign, the presser...
View ArticleMemorable One-Liners From Mother Angelica
Www.Aleteia.com - Mother Angelica, a Poor Clare of Perpetual Adoration, never did anything in a small way. She was known for her ability to parry a quick retort, make a wry observation or toss off a...
View ArticleMy Final Post on Pope’s Exhortation: A Catholic World Report Symposium with...
From Catholic World Report: Pope Francis’ post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, “On love in the family,” has been one of the most widely anticipated papal documents in recent years,...
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