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Top 10 from Eamonn Clark, STL for All Time
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) has been involved in a decades-long conversation with the Holy See about its nature, rights, and duties. It is a complicated story, much of which has been playing out behind the scenes. With the impending consecration of four bishops against the express will of...
I remember when LifeSiteNews (LSN) was on my list of sources to check almost every day to stay up-to-date on what was going on in the Catholic world. It was always a bit edgy and obviously pushing a specific kind of interpretation of current events, but it typically kept within the bounds of what...
When you think of Fiji, you think of palm trees and coconuts. You think of white sandy beaches. You think of daiquiris by the pool. I think of Tongan Methodists being defeated in battle by Catholics at Taveuni. We are not the same. Fiji is a pretty peaceful place overall, and certainly does...
The Theology of the Body Institute (TOBI) recently released a piece of content which received an abnormal amount of attention, much of it negative. A previous video had spoken positively about “tongue kissing” for unmarried couples, which elicited a few concerned comments. Wider...
The backstory of Amoris Laetitia starts in Egypt. No—not in the Book of Exodus. But in Cairo in the 1960s. The auxiliary bishop of Cairo, Elias Zoghby, came to the Second Vatican Council with a unique and shocking proposal: copying the Eastern Orthodox in their discipline of allowing...
The McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame recently released a document about seminary reform in the USA. The report, “Do You Know Them to be Worthy?”, contains 12 practical recommendations for improving the formation process for seminarians, based on the...
There were once two brothers living in their father’s house. One brother demanded his inheritance and went away and lived a life of debauchery. One brother stayed home, faithful. The first returned, contrite, and he was celebrated. The second complained about the mercy of the father who...
(Part 1) Perhaps the most breathtaking content of the McGrath Report is found in Proposal 5: Given that the candidate has the obligation to disclose himself to the Church and that the Church has the right to know the man, a goal of seminary counseling/psychotherapy and...
