2nd Sunday of Lent
(Unless otherwise indicated, the above photos were taken at Mt. Tabor in Israel on 3/9/17.)
- Dealing with the "Art" of Father Marco Rupnik (Catholic365, 2/18/24)
- OFFENSIVE ARGUMENT FROM CARDINAL McELROY: Key Pope ally says US blowback on Fiducia is fueled by anti-gay ‘animus’ (Crux, 2/18/24)
- Nigeria's Mass attendance is one of highest in the world - so is its persecution (Catholic Review, 2/17/24)
- Transgender Madness Threatens Children and Parental Rights (Human Life International, 2/12/24)
- Sens. Vance, Lee, Johnson Join Elon and Vivek to Slam 'Endless Funding' for Ukraine (Breitbart, 2/12/24)
- ‘Betrayed Without a Kiss’ — John Clark’s Guide to God’s Plan for Marriage (National Catholic Register, 2/10/24)
- "For Niccolò Machiavelli, Pope Julius II was the model Renaissance prince. He was highly intelligent. He was skilled at diplomacy, politics, and war. And he was a visionary patron of the arts. Julius was also, according to those who served him, intensely vindictive. He was moody, humorless, and coarse, with a violent temper. He had a gift for making enemies and alienating the less worldly and more committed Christian faithful. And the result was predictable....
"Whatever their flaws, Paul VI, John Paul II, and Benedict XVI used their authority in a centripetal way. They each sought to pull a centrifugal Church back together after Vatican II. The Francis papacy has a different spirit. There’s a unique kind of irony in a notion like 'synodality' which risks further fragmenting a Church already under great external pressures, being championed by the most authoritarian pope in decades....
"What we need now is for the papacy to return to its primary task of strengthening and uniting the faithful. This requires stability, clarity, and the embrace of spiritual fatherhood....The Pope and his close collaborators should reflect heroic virtue and holiness, and history tells of the harm done to the Church when they do not" (Archbishop Charles Chaput, 12/19/2023)
- Notes on the Prince of This World: The devil is real. Deal with it. (Archbishop Charles Chaput, 6/27/23)
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