Big news, just announced by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Rome, November 3rd, 2014. On November 17-19, 2014, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will host a colloquium in Vatican City, in cooperation with the Pontifical Council for the Family, the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, and the Pontifical Council for [...]
Some Catholic blogs and news outlets are reporting this, but we’ll see about the mainstream media and the “progressive” Catholics. They certainly seemed to think the Synod on the Family was front page news, but of course Pope Francis didn’t publicly say anything during the synod and the secularists and progressive Catholics could fabricate whatever [...]
The just-concluded Synod on the Family at the Vatican has proven to be as contentious and fraught with drama as any large family gathering, complete with squabbles, loose talk and finger-pointing (mostly from the Synod’s chattiest and most self-aggrandizing attendee, Germany’s Cardinal Kasper) not to mention questionable reporting, some sensible opining and a [...]
Today the synod published its midway working document, which I’ll be referring to as the relatio. Vatican expert John Thavis calls it an “earthquake” but I am more immediately concerned with the vacuum — by which I mean the embarrassment of a Vatican news conference which followed the release of the document. I’ve been a longtime [...]
Nicely done, but it could have used a proofreader. That’s “parliament,” not “parlament.” Oy. Anyway, if you’re wondering what the Extraordinary Synod on the Family going on right now at the Vatican is all about, here’s a good, concise introduction. For videos of the opening Mass of the Synod and other events, click here. For [...]
Catholics in the Windy City are smiling. In fact, all Chicagoans are happy right now. Things are looking up, and there’s reason for hope. Wait, what? New archbishop? What are you talking about? DAAAAA BEEEAAARS!!! a
Pope Francis just issued his own ice bucket challenge to liberal Catholics, even if they don’t know it yet. For months upon months, liberal Catholics have been salivating over Pope Francis choice to succeed Cardinal George. Back in February, I warned that liberal Catholics would try to make as much as they could of Pope [...]
A new report issued by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on September 15 has identified over a thousand health plans eligible for federal premium subsidies that cover elective abortions. The GAO is an independent reviewing agency of the U.S. government. This news “confirms the U.S. bishops’ longstanding concern about abortion coverage” in the [...]
Wow, this was really pathetic. Pro-abortion activist Andrea Grimes, a political reporter at “reproductive justice” site RH Reality Check, must have thought she was pretty clever when she came up with the Taco Beer Abortion Challenge. Apparently thinking she could take advantage of the recent Ice Bucket Challenge that has conquered the Internet and [...]
CNN published an inflammatory and provocative piece of link-bait over the weekend criticizing the Catholic Church because some of the larger archdioceses happen to have “lavish homes” for their archbishops. In the process of concern-trolling for a religion he clearly despises, the writer, Daniel Burke, reveals how little he understands about the Catholic Church. Below [...]
