Faithful Catholics are facing a new threat as bishops and priests are forbidding their flocks from receiving Communion in the traditional way that dates back to the era of the Church Fathers: on the tongue.1
If the Guinness Book of Records were to track the most senseless attitude possible, the award would probably go to someone who committed suicide for fear of dying. With the coronavirus epidemic, that is what the world is doing. It is playing out on the social scale, the very same chain reaction the SARS-CoV-2 virus(*)...
By Domenick Galatolo The Coronavirus is not the first epidemic to strike the world. Yet as churches are closed and the sacraments are difficult to find, the question arises: How did the Church and the saints deal with plagues in the past? In the golden pages of history, we find a holy bishop who faced...
Why We Need Wisdom not Panic in the Coronavirus Fight
Our reaction to the coronavirus reflects the crisis of our secular godless society. The problem is not the virus—as potentially lethal as it might be. This outbreak is a biological fact, like so many that have plagued humanity over the ages.
By Philip Beattie Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. Ephesians 5:11 Ireland is set to be centre stage for the first official celebration of the origins of Samhain, and subsequent positioning of Ireland internationally as the “Home of Halloween”. This “celebration”, known as the Puca Festival will...
Fáilte Ireland, along with two county Councils, Meath & Louth, are funding a festival of events to take place over 3 days from 31st October to 2nd November 2019. The festival named Púca is aimed at promoting Ireland as “the birthplace of Halloween”1 on an international level.
“Thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build My Church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against Her” (Matt. 16:18). To this first promise, Our Lord added a second: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away” (Matt. 24:35). Thus did Jesus Christ establish the One Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church, sealing Her immortality with His divine guarantee.
The violence of the storm currently assailing the Church would likely bring down many a human institution, but not the institution supported by God’s own promises. The Church’s enemies try with all their might to defame and dishonor Her. They hurl mud and muck, but they fail to sully Her.
They declare that She cannot survive the scandals perpetrated within and against Her, but their words ring with the uncertainty that it will indeed be so. Confronted with the silent testimony of history, they know by experience that the Church is both holy and immortal. Nothing stains Her, not even infamy rising from Her ranks,...
“The Rev. James Martin is a Roman Catholic rock star.”That is how his admirer Frank Bruni1 described him, in a February 3, 2018 Op-Ed in The New York Times.2 He continued: “His books, including one on Jesus Christ and another on the saints, have sold hundreds of thousands of copies. The director Martin Scorsese has...
A Catholic soul is filled with sadness when it must criticise a member of the once glorious Society of Jesus founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, a religious order that did so much good for the Church. Alas, corruptio optimi pessima—the corruption of the best is the worst of all. This reflection comes to mind...
Fr. James Martin, a pro-homosexual advocate in America has been invited to speak at the World Meeting of Families this August in Dublin. Though Fr. Martin has consistently contravened Church doctrine on homosexuality, he will be speaking at an event that is supposed to celebrate the institution of the family the way God has made...
