Fr. Raymond J. de Souza: Certain Vatican academies, including two established by St. John Paul II, have abandoned their missions by attacking fundamental human rights and dignity.
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Rome Today Isn’t What It Was - The Catholic Thing
Thirty years ago, St. John Paul the Great launched two new pontifical academies, the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences (PASS) and the Pontifical …
Hopefully he learns why he should be devoted to the Latin Mass because he sure didn't express that in anything he said. His opus dei numerary isn't …More
Hopefully he learns why he should be devoted to the Latin Mass because he sure didn't express that in anything he said. His opus dei numerary isn't doing a very good job of catechizing.
“Whether the Chinese Church can remain authentically Catholic in the face of Sinicization is an open question,” writes Francis X. Rocca in an essay appearing in The Atlantic. Rocca—who until recently …More
“Whether the Chinese Church can remain authentically Catholic in the face of Sinicization is an open question,” writes Francis X. Rocca in an essay appearing in The Atlantic. Rocca—who until recently covered the Vatican for the Wall Street Journal—takes a critical look at the secret Vatican agreement with China governing the appointment on new bishops. The results of that agreement have been disappointing to the Vatican. The goal was to ensure the appointment of enough bishops to serve the Chinese Church, but at least 40 dioceses remain leaderless. That situation does not trouble Beijing, Rocca observes, because the Communist Party finds it easier to control a leadership Church. In general, Rocca writes, the agreement: ... came at the expense of China’s second group of Catholics: the so-called underground Church, which previously ordained its own bishops with Rome’s approval and is now in effect being told by the Vatican to join the state-controlled Church.
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The Vatican’s Gamble With Beijing Is Costing China’s Catholics
Subscribe to Listen to this Article Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. No pope has ever set foot in China …
When the conclave of 2013 selected Cardinal Bergoglio, it gave him a mandate to eliminate corruption at the Vatican. And that mandate has not been fulfilled.
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Mounting frustration in the twilight of the pontificate
Mounting frustration in the twilight of the pontificate Was it sheer frustration that prompted a group of Catholic scholars to issue their open …
All that he has done in this regard has been to consolidate authority to his person. Accordingly, his responsibility for the corruption, which is as …More
All that he has done in this regard has been to consolidate authority to his person. Accordingly, his responsibility for the corruption, which is as present as ever, is much greater.
The Custos of the Holy Land, Father Francesco Patton: us Christians in the Holy Land realise very well the suffering on both sides. We realise the reasons and wrongs on one side and the other.
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Fr. Patton: Holy Land needs leaders to commit to reconciliation - Vatican News
Fr. Patton: Holy Land needs leaders to commit to reconciliation In a wide-ranging interview with Vatican Media, the Custos …
They tell us we need unrestrained immigration because birth rates have collapsed, but increasing the birth rate isn’t the solution? It needs to happen …More
They tell us we need unrestrained immigration because birth rates have collapsed, but increasing the birth rate isn’t the solution? It needs to happen, of course, but it is a real uphill battle. It will require a wholesale rejection of abortion and contraception. It can’t succeed unless the vast majority of people are on board. It’s going to require getting all of the anti-abortion folks on the anti-contraception team, at the very least.
The film’s release is planned for April 18, 2025, Good Friday. The production will be filmed with special events, such as the Fall of the Angels and scenes in Hell.
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Mel Gibson Will Release the Sequel to “The Passion” on Christ’s “Resurrection” in 2025: This Is …
(ZENIT News / Los Angeles, 25.04.2024).- Mel Gibson’s new film project, on Jesus’ “Resurrection,” …
Fr. Brent Shelton, one of three priests who reportedly received a text message in March that said, 'I will never understand how anyone could be so hateful to destroy the ministry of any cleric,' has …More
Fr. Brent Shelton, one of three priests who reportedly received a text message in March that said, 'I will never understand how anyone could be so hateful to destroy the ministry of any cleric,' has previously spoken out on sexual advances he received as a 19-year-old seminarian and said the text amounts to witness tampering.
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Gone but not forgotten: Months later, former Knoxville Bishop Richard Stika is threatening priests
Gone but not forgotten: Months later, former Knoxville Bishop Richard Stika is threatening priests Though …
Bishops have been destroying the "ministries of clerics" for years - mostly of those who have balked at cooperating with the ongoing Modernist Revolution …More
Bishops have been destroying the "ministries of clerics" for years - mostly of those who have balked at cooperating with the ongoing Modernist Revolution in the Church.
Musa al-Gharbi, a sociologist at Columbia University, examined data from many studies…and concluded that conservatives are indeed happier than liberals. He said this finding “is consistent across …More
Musa al-Gharbi, a sociologist at Columbia University, examined data from many studies…and concluded that conservatives are indeed happier than liberals. He said this finding “is consistent across countries and extends back in time.”
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WHY ARE LEFTISTS SO MISERABLE?
It was the day after Ronald Reagan beat Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election. I was smiling (I had run Reagan’s campaign in the North Hills of Pittsburgh), but …
f you marry badly — or marry at all, when it isn’t for you — don’t assume the damage is recoverable. If you make the wrong career choice, and realise it as early as age 30, don’t count on a way back …More
f you marry badly — or marry at all, when it isn’t for you — don’t assume the damage is recoverable. If you make the wrong career choice, and realise it as early as age 30, don’t count on a way back. Even the decision to go down a science track at school, when the humanities turn out to be your bag, can mangle a life. None of these errors need consign a person to eternal and acute distress. But life is path-dependent: each mistake narrows the next round of choices. A big one, or just an early one, can foreclose all hope of the life you wanted.
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The myth of the second chance
The self-help industry suggests all mistakes in life are retrievable. Middle age teaches us otherwise
True that - but often people today, particularly the young, are paralyzed by a behavior labeled F.O.M.O. = fear of missing out. So they defer marriage …More
True that - but often people today, particularly the young, are paralyzed by a behavior labeled F.O.M.O. = fear of missing out. So they defer marriage or children, or religious vocation, or conversion to later, so they can experience all options open. This 'tyranny of choice' keeps them from making any life commitments at all. Hence the feeling of giving up that permeates the Western world.
'He that rises after his falls, with confidence in God and profound humility of heart, will become, in God's hands, a proper instrument for the …More
'He that rises after his falls, with confidence in God and profound humility of heart, will become, in God's hands, a proper instrument for the accomplishment of great things; but he who acts otherwise can never do any good.' (St. Paul of the Cross)
Papers like Time of Mr Luce and his friends were preparing Catholics in the US to morph into followers of americanism. People like J. C. Murray but also …More
Papers like Time of Mr Luce and his friends were preparing Catholics in the US to morph into followers of americanism. People like J. C. Murray but also Fulton Sheen were very useful in that process. They are false saints of the false religion.
Another great article by Anthony Esolen. We have a pontificate that refuses to evangelize because those in charge have given up on doctrine. Pastoral …More
Another great article by Anthony Esolen. We have a pontificate that refuses to evangelize because those in charge have given up on doctrine. Pastoral care without doctrine is social work.
