The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, claims that the USCCB has made no mention of prohibiting Communion to pro-abortion politicians. This simply is not true. Continue Reading »
Catholics who take the texts of Vatican II seriously refuse to truckle to, and in fact resist, those cultural aggressors who think of human beings as mere twitching bundles of morally-equal desires. Continue Reading »
Revitalizing a eucharistic Church requires a new clarity among the people of the Church about the nature of the eucharistic community—and what actions estrange Catholics from it. Continue Reading »
The bishops’ most urgent obligation is to achieve principled consistency—according to the canons of natural justice and Catholic doctrine—concerning the priesthood of Jesus Christ. Continue Reading »
The bishops are looking to clarify—with the final goal of healing and full communion—that the facilitation of abortion is a grave moral evil. Continue Reading »
Catholics who reject the ancient Christian teaching on the grave moral evil of abortion and facilitate its practice are not in full communion with the Church. Continue Reading »
The bishops must work together to proclaim and uphold the truth that the Church is a eucharistic community. Continue Reading »
The extraordinary fact of Catholic life in the United States is not the few bishops who humiliate us so bitterly, but the many who do the job so well. Continue Reading »
The challenges rending the Church today are strikingly similar to those of centuries ago. Continue Reading »
Sadly, the German bishops want to “reform” first and evangelize later. Continue Reading »
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