Editor writes... As with all Feast Day threads, discuss any relevant issues, share your favourite hymns, prayers and – as ever – your best jokes, of the good clean fun variety! A very happy Feast of the Annunciation to all our bloggers and readers. But, note: a number of our bloggers, myself included, will be attending the...
From Complicit Clergy... The members of the heretical German Synodal Way have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a document replete with gender ideology that seeks to allow changing one’s listed sex on a baptismal certificate and paves the way for “transgender” priests. The text entitled “Dealing with gender diversity” was approved by more than 95% of all votes on March 11 during the fifth...
From the website of the Diocese of Motherwell... Letter to the Faithful from Bishop Toal (with some additional commentary from Editor, Catholic Truth)... Dear Brothers and Sisters, I wish you all well. Thank you for your prayers and good wishes in recent times while I have been recuperating from hip surgery. I am feeling the benefit of the...
From The Catholic Thing... A number of lessons can be drawn from a recent Washington Post story. On March 9, the Post published a nearly 4,000-word story on the work of Catholic Laity and Clergy for Renewal (CLCR), a non-profit based in Colorado. CLCR meticulously – and legally – collected publicly available data on clergy usage of Grindr and...
From Aleteia - Ireland’s “Mass rocks” are powerful reminder of ancestors’ strong faith From 1695 to about 1750, life was difficult for Irish Catholics; churches were closed, bishops were banished and many priests were forced to leave the country. Even with this risk, priests continued to celebrate Mass for the people in secret isolated outdoor locations,...
From Catholic World Report... Bishop Athanasius Schneider has recently thrown down the glove in an interview with LifeSiteNews, claiming that those of us who believe the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is still in schism have “a very narrow, legalistic view of the reality of the Church” and we are “putting the letter of the...
Humza Yousaf, who is running to be the next First Minister of Scotland, has committed to removing abortion from the criminal law, which would introduce abortion on demand, for any reason, up in birth in Scotland – along with legalising sex-selective abortion. The three candidates for the next First Minister of Scotland were approached by campaign group, Back...
Editor writes... By claiming that Scotland's only post-Reformation martyr gave his life in the cause of religious freedom and freedom of conscience (to follow whatever religion one chooses), the above commentators embody the spirit of our ecumenical/interfaith age - the age of religious indifferentism. The video dates from around 4 years ago but the sentiment...
From the Catholic Thing... The situation of the Catholic Church at present is one of grave disorder, due in large part to the willingness of Pope Francis to say, do, and tolerate things that no pope in history has ever said, done, or tolerated. His recent off-the-cuff remarks instructing priests not to deny absolution to anyone who comes...
From Flourish... Priests and parishioners are to be asked to come together to work out how best to organise parish life in the Archdiocese of Glasgow in coming years. But Archbishop Nolan has made it clear that change is on the cards. In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with Flourish to mark his first year as Archbishop...
