Human rights advocate says universal church has kept hope in Venezuela
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The load of worries carried on the shoulders of José Gregorio Guarenas, coordinator of Human Rights for the Vicariate of Caracas at the Archdiocese of Venezuela, is heavy. His work doesn’t solely focus on concerns affecting the life of members of the Catholic Church, such as recent cases of nuns facing obstacles […]
Sacraments #7: Are the Mass and the Eucharist the Same Thing? w/ Fr. Paul Robinson
Father Paul Robinson will join us to discuss Holy Eucharist. In this first of three episodes on the Blessed Sacrament, Father will explain to us the relationship between the Sacrifice of the Mass and the Holy Eucharist, then how the Eucharist is distinct from all the other sacraments, yet still intimately related to it. Next […]
Archbishop’s Immigration Lies
TRANSCRIPT More than 2 million illegal immigrants crossed into the United States through Mexico last year. That number doesn’t include those who evaded Border Patrol, but it does include countless unaccompanied children. Many of those minors were transported to Florida, where a war of words has erupted between the state’s top leader and the Sunshine State’s leading Catholic. Church Militant’s Kim […]
RNS offers a new story about an old trend called ‘Sheilaism’…
One of the problems with covering the same religion-beat topics for multiple decades (in other words, I am old) is that you tend to see many “new” news stories as pieces of puzzles that are actually quite old. We will come back to some of the specifics of this piece — details that link it […]
The what, why, and how of godparents…
As Attila the Hun and his hordes swept toward Paris, St. Genevieve encouraged the people to pray and do penance. The young woman was well known to the Parisians. She had exhibited remarkable piety at an early age and had come to live with her godmother in Paris. She cared for the poor, experienced a […]
A Synod ‘process’ that only liberals could love…
Preparations for the Synod on Synodality are being “welcomed with great enthusiasm,” we are told. And who brings us this good news? Why, the people responsible for those preparations, of course. To be fair, the Office of the Synod did concede, in its rosy progress report, that the preparatory process, with its countless local meetings […]
Pope Francis on the priesthood: True or false closeness?
As our Catholic World News service reported today, “In a major address on priesthood, Pope emphasizes closeness to God, the bishop, other priests, and the people.” I hope it does not surprise readers when I say that they should read the full text of this address, which is about 6,500 words in all, or roughly […]
Liquid Catholicism and the German Synodal Path…
Twenty years ago, during the Long Lent of 2002, I began using the term “Catholic Lite” to describe a project that detached the Church from its foundations in Scripture and Tradition: a Catholicism that could not tell you with certainty what it believes or what makes for righteous living; a Church of open borders, unable […]
Cardinal Becciu back in court as Vatican trial resumes…
Cardinal Angelo Becciu returned to court in Vatican City today, as lawyers for the 10 defendants in the Vatican’s financial scandal trial made final pleas to see the case against them dismissed.
Daily Rome Shot 421, etc.
Daily Mass Fervorino. Litany of Loreto after Mass. HERE WORDLE 07 Latin is the harder puzzle, I think.