https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2018/08/31/something-more-than-a-crisis/ Yet it is so divided, and the “hot” civil war that has now started was preceded by decades of “cold.” The failure of successive “conservative” popes to enforce their own rulings led finally to the (I think, unintended) revolution at the last papal conclave.
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/benjamin-wiker/from-a-moral-historical-perspective-this-crisis-is-worse-than-you-realize There is nothing, nothing, that undermines the authority of the Church more quickly and thoroughly than this devilish marriage of scandal and hypocrisy.
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2018/08/the-necessary-fear Pope Benedict XVI once said, “the absence of the fear of God is the beginning of all foolishness.” In our time, in our Church, it has brought more than foolishness. Let us return to the necessary fear—and in it, ground our hope in Christ more firmly.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/08/30/dont-scrub-the-world-of-soccer-with-my-special-needs-son/ My imperfect son with cystic fibrosis turned a dozen grammar school kids into more perfect children. Kind. Compassionate. Empathetic. * * * * * None of us are perfect. None of us ever will be in this life. But those less perfect than others—those who have less and suffer more—they make us all more…
https://catholicwomensforum.org/letter-to-pope-francis/ We are wives, mothers, single women, consecrated women, and religious sisters. We are the mothers and sisters of your priests, seminarians, future priests and religious. We are the Church’s lay leaders, and the mothers of the next generation. We are professors in your seminaries, and leaders in Catholic chanceries and institutions. We are theologians,…
