COVID-19 has temporarily changed many aspects of our lives, sparking a firestorm of criticism about the best way to deal with the current crisis. While there are plenty of claims and decisions to debate, I’m especially interested in those involving matters of faith. I’ll address four that I’ve come across over the last several days….
Priestly celibacy is again a topic of debate in the Catholic Church with news of an alleged disagreement over the issue between Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. I’m going to withhold personal judgment of the controversy until more information is revealed. But I would like to address the criticism of the discipline itself….
Former Pope Benedict XVI is releasing a book co-authored with Cardinal Robert Sarah defending clerical celibacy. The book comes as a response to the news that Pope Francis will be publishing his own thoughts on the subject. Benedict’s book “From the Depth’s of Our Hearts” comes out in the midst of some bishops within the Catholic…
Mary Margaret Olohan – Retired Pope Benedict XVI is releasing a book on priestly celibacy Feb. 20. – The book comes as Pope Francis prepares to publish his own thoughts on priestly celibacy. – “From the Depths of Our Hearts” takes a “serious and unflinching look at the crisis in the Catholic Church,” its press…
Earlier this year, Pope Francis again blasted capitalism as “a fallacious economic model that has been followed for too long.” It is “profit-oriented, shortsighted, and based on the misconception of unlimited economic growth,” and said that it results in a “disastrous impact on the natural world.” Attacks on economic freedom as we know it have been a…
by Kitty Testa If you look back at all the news of 2018, it seems as if everything centered around Trump’s tweets and Russia! Russia! Russia! The news cycles spun so fast that it was hard to remember what happened the week before. We moved from one hysteria to another as the never-Trumpers kept warning…