When I lived in England I used to go to Mont St Michel every year to make my retreat. One of the reasons I used to love going there was because it was such a fantastic symbol of the church. You might not know it, but the bay that surrounds Mont St Michel is subject to [...]
To show how the media constantly gets things wrong check this out: Pope Francis asks the Brazilian bishops to bring forward a proposal to ease the terrible shortage of priests in remote areas. The suggestion is that older married men--catechists or deacons--who are already ministering to outlying Catholic populations, might be ordained as priests. These are [...]
Cardinal Muller speaks out honestly about Martin Luther. Edward Pentin reports here that the German Cardinal gets it right about Luther. Criticizing other prelates who say Luther's revolution was the "work of the Holy Spirit" Cardinal Müller, however, said the Protestant Reformation was not a “reform” but a “total change of the foundations of the Catholic [...]
Thomas Williams reports here that German Cardinal Reinhard Marx thinks climate change is the worst problem facing Europe. The German Catholic Church continues to rake in the cash with the famous "church tax" while she also continues to suffer from ecclesiastical hemophilia--bleeding members and vocations in a disastrous decline. The problems in liberal Christianity are endemic, and [...]
Over at the UKs Catholic Herald this week veteran Catholic journalist Damian Thompson writes here about the "cyber wars" in the Catholic world. At the moment it revolves around Fr James Martin SJ who has become a poster boy for Catholic LBGTQ activism. The Savonarola de nos jours, Michael Voris calls him out with strident words and [...]