Tag - politics

Catholic Schools: Mass-Going Optional?

Editor writes... Recently, I stumbled across a magazine entitled The Scottish Catholic, featuring a pupil on the front cover, querying "What's our future?" beside his photo a list: Catholic Climate Change, Cost of Living, Mental Health, Hope (image below). Turns out this is a special Catholic Education Week Edition of the magazine which had been handed over...

Giorgia Meloni “For God, Country & Family!”

Video [above]:  Giorgia Meloni's [Fabulous] 2019 Courageous Common-Sense Speech (with English subtitles) From The Spectator, 25 September, 2022... As Italians prepare to vote in today’s general election, the European Union has issued a warning – making clear that it stands ready to act. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Brothers of Italy party, is widely expected to become...

Glasgow: New Archbishop… But No Clean Sweep

From the website of the Archdiocese of Glasgow... Archbishop Nolan has written, along with over 100 church leaders across the UK, to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak urging the UK Government to implement a windfall tax on fossil fuel companies to address the cost of living crisis and maintain its commitments to tackle the climate...

Is Challenging Covid Propaganda Too “Political”? More Christian To Just Pray? Just Lean On Shovel?

Comment:  There is a school of thought among Catholics which argues that we should "give unto Caesar" in the matter of Covid restrictions,  do what we are told (in order to "stay safe" - Gimme strength) because otherwise, we are into the area of "political activism" and that is "not Catholic".  This was particularly curious...

Politics More Important Than Faith: Should “Catholic” Rebecca Long-Bailey Win Labour Leadership Race? Really?

Rebecca Long-Bailey has appeared to suggest her politics are more important than her Catholic faith, as she attempted to extinguish a major row over her stance on abortion. Amid a mounting backlash over her objection to later terminations on the grounds of disability, the Labour leadership frontrunner said that although she prayed to God every...

Instrumentum Laboris: the most shocking Vatican Document EVER?

"Will the bishops, successors of the Apostles be silent? Will the cardinals, the Pope’s advisors in the governing of the Church be silent, in the face of this political-religious manifesto which perverts the doctrine and praxis of the Mystical Body of Christ ?" The first reactions in response to the Instrumentum Laboris for the Amazon...

Question Time Or The Fiona Bruce & Emily Thornberry Show? Your Verdict…

Note:  video originally posted her has been removed from YouTube... Fiona Bruce's took over the chair of Question Time for the first-time last night, Thursday, 10 January 2019.  Don't ask me why, because the BBC bias is nowhere as predictable, but I do try to watch it every week, either live or recorded.  Last night,...

Pope Francis Doesn’t DO Catholicism

Christopher Ferrara, Fatima Center, writes: As the homosexual priest scandal once again erupts around the world (including the revelation that fully half of the cardinals and bishops of the Netherlands are implicated in the cover-up of sexual abuse), the ex-President of the Italian Senate, Marcello Pera, was interviewed by La Fede Quotidiana concerning Pope Francis’...

Pope Silent On Abortion, Outspoken On Mass Migration of Muslims: Why?

Pope Francis Weaponizes the Mass for Politics by Chris Ferrara Fatima Perspectives #1213 The Pope who vows he will not interfere in the concrete politics of nations when it comes to abortion and “gay marriage” never ceases to interfere in politics when it comes to his obsession with promoting the mass influx of Muslims into Europe. Thus...

Thinking Through Catholic Truth…

The above is the self-explanatory  introduction to our new series, "Thinking Through Catholic Truth - The Big Questions... Answered". Topics already in the pipeline include Scripture, Spirituality, Catholic education  and the "Institutional Church".   If you have a topic you'd like covered tell us in the comments, or if you would like to participate in any...