‘Synodal Shepherds’ Attack the Sheep (The Catholic Thing): “What the Church has only recently become accustomed to is attacks upon her teaching coming from some of her shepherds, especially from the never-ending pronouncements emanating from the office of the Synod of Bishops.“
A Place to Dream at Our Lady of Hungary (Today’s Catholic): “When Francisca Flores first walked into the space that is now the library at Our Lady of Hungary Catholic School, it wasn’t a place for students to read or gather. It was a storage room.”
Cardinal Müller: Synod’s homosexuality report leads to ‘heretical relativization’ of marriage (Per Mariam): “Cardinal Gerhard Müller has issued a blistering critique of the latest study group report from the Synod on Synodality and its platforming of anti-Catholic, pro-homosexual ideology.”
Christopher Hale Is Hurting The Pope, the Catholic Church, and His Soul (Junto): “You’ve probably seen [Christopher Hale] on X by now. He’s the former (unsuccessful) Democratic congressional candidate doing his best to turn Pope Leo XIV into a weapon against the right …”
A Modern Seminarian’s Dictionary, Revisited (Catholic Culture): “In recent years, the Synod of Synodality and other organizations subverting Church doctrine, like Old Man River, just keep rolling along.”
Just War 101: Catholic Teaching for a Dangerous Moment (What We Need Now – Substack): “As a bishop of the Catholic Church, and the proud son of a World War II veteran who served as a gunner on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific theater, it is important for me to discern carefully whether today is a historical moment … “
The Vatican’s ‘lavender mafia’ strikes again (Catholic Culture): “What was happening in Rome last week was the same thing that has been happening for years: Some Vatican officials quietly signaled their support for the homosexual agenda, and no one stopped them.”
LGBTQ ‘lavender graduations’ set to take place at major Christian colleges, including one with a drag show (Fox News): “Some of the country’s most prominent Catholic colleges and universities are holding separate LGBTQ-affirming graduation ceremonies this spring, including one that also plans to include a drag performance.”
In an uncertain era, students turn to Catholicism for stability (South Carolina Public Radio): “In South Carolina, where Catholicism has historically been a minority faith, the college Catholic population has more than doubled over the past several decades, now surpassing 218,000.”
Our Strange Catholic Moment (First Things): “At present, the trend in conversions shows no signs of offsetting broader decline. And yet something is stirring in the Catholic Church.”
Seven Flawed Mothers Who Triumph in Catholic Literature (Benedictine College Media & Culture): “Grace doesn’t make mothers perfect; it transforms their efforts despite, and even through, their imperfections.”
Introducing: the ‘Towards a New Aesthetics’ Series (Creating Aesthetic Cities – Substack): “We are more than a quarter of the way into the twenty-first century. Yet, our dominant aesthetic in architecture and design still belongs to a movement founded a century ago to define the twentieth.”
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@ ‘Synodal Shepherds’ Attack the Sheep
Cardinal Mario Grech Secretary-General, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich General Relator Pope Francis’ appointees apparently remain in their positions managing a body of mixed bishops, religious sisters, Laity.
Fr Gerald E Murray canonist NY Archdiocese shreds the charade proposed as authentic Christian witness regarding the legitimacy of homosexual relations, homosexual marriage as a contribution to the Church.
Those of us who had premonitions regarding Synodality, the appointments and direction imposed on the Synod of Bishops by Pope Francis can now affirm its intended purpose. Our Church waits, and listens to what Leo XIV has in mind. What direction, if any, he will propose.
A year has passed. The philosophy of some is that Pope Leo is very cautious, deliberative. He takes his time to evaluate. Some of us realize the longer we take to address this kind of situation in which a movement continues to grow the more difficult it will be to make the necessary corrections. The prime example, the German Synodal Weg. Inertia can mean many things. Conviction notwithstanding.
EXACTLY SO well put.
“Fr Gerald E Murray canonist NY Archdiocese shreds the charade proposed as authentic Christian witness regarding the legitimacy of homosexual relations, homosexual marriage as a contribution to the Church.
Those of us who had premonitions regarding Synodality, the appointments and direction imposed on the Synod of Bishops by Pope Francis can now affirm its intended purpose. Our Church waits, and listens to what Leo XIV has in mind. What direction, if any, he will propose.
A year has passed. The philosophy of some is that Pope Leo is very cautious, deliberative. He takes his time to evaluate. Some of us realize the longer we take to address this kind of situation in which a movement continues to grow the more difficult it will be to make the necessary corrections.”
@ Our Strange Catholic Moment
The Church has a thinner presence on the ground but seemingly a greater one in public debates (Schmitz). Catholic intellectual acumen has in effect drifted past its Catholic population. Thankfully much is preserved in ink, Catholic scholarship continues though downgraded.
What remains is the universal efficacy of its premises. Freedom of the will to choose good rather than evil, a consistency of clarity regarding the good. Unfortunately but fortunately as membership disappears the reasonable strength of its doctrines come to the surface.
A Catholic moment indeed foreseen by Ratzinger in smaller residency and greater containment of eternal truths. Leo XIV, so far a disappointment showering condemnations on Trump, U.S. policy during in flight interviews, newcomer Vance correcting him on the principles of just war theory, migration and the righteousness of national interests in its own population. A great moment for Catholic thought but ironically a vexing moment for Catholic unity Leo XIV’s main interest.
“Seven Flawed Mothers Who Triumph in Catholic Literature”
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What a wonderful article & an amazing painting accompanying it. Thank you very much. I really appreciated reading that.
@ Cardinal Muller: Synod’s homosexuality report
Because the expanding homosexual-lifestyle demographic is propagated not biologically, but rather culturally, politically and even by getting locked-in through early sexual experimentation…one can only guess at the scandal pontificated by the synodal “expert” Study Group #9 report. Bureaucratic victimization. McCarrick, eat your heart out.
Did St. John Chrysostom have synodal clique #9 in mind when he discerned (discernment!) that “The road to hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lampposts that light the path”?
But, hey, “who am I to judge?”
“McCarrick, eat your heart out.”
Is cardiophagy a feature of hell?
“Synod’s homosexuality report leads to ‘heretical relativization’ of marriage ”
Leo needs to act, but given that half the bishops that elected him agree with the ‘heretical relativation’, it’s unlikely he will make the necessary pronouncements.
What we need is a clear, plain-spoken reaffirmation that God created us male and female, marriage is between a man and a woman for life, homosexual activity is immoral, and is in no way remotely comparable to marriage. Those who reject the doctrine on the family cannot be in communion with the Catholic Church. Period. The End. Come Holy Spirit!
“Some of the country’s most prominent Catholic colleges and universities are holding separate LGBTQ-affirming graduation ceremonies this spring, including one that also plans to include a drag performance.”
In 2008, the birthrate took a dive as a result of economic disruptions of the “mortgage crisis” (the government interference in mortgages crisis, but that’s another story). The babies that weren’t born in 2008 and beyond aren’t going to be college freshman in 2026 and beyond.
I’m going to enjoy watching these frauds fall in the future.
What I’d like to see is Leo stand behind a flaming brazier, toss the report in, turn around, and walk away.