Roman Catholicism

“The cardinal unfortunately reverts to a simplistic caricature of Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand,’ contrasting it with the ‘visible hand of an economy which is able to serve all members of the community well.’ … Smith’s point was that demanding people to ignore their self-interest, as moralists are wont to do, is unrealistic and socially destructive, encouraging hypocrisy rather than virtue.” -

“The celebration of Holy Week in this colonial town southwest of Mexico City is one of the most dramatic and shocking in the country. During Holy Week, ten processions, each more solemn than the last as the week progresses, are carried out by three religious brotherhoods: Animas, Encruzados and Flagelentes.” - RNS

“During the anti-Christian fervor of the French Revolution, Notre Dame was turned into a Temple of Reason and rededicated to the atheistic Cult of Reason. Later, when the Committee of Public Safety, which controlled France, decreed worship of a Supreme Being, it was rededicated to the deistic Cult of the Supreme Being.” - TGC

Cardinal Philippe Barbarin “was convicted on charges of failing to inform the proper authorities of child sexual abuse allegations. In his statement, Barbarin said on the morning of March 18 that he forwarded his resignation to the pope.” - WRN

“The report pointed out that church officials have informed their congregants of only a few names included in the list.” - WRN

“According to a poll released Wednesday (March 13) by Gallup, more than a third of U.S. Catholics …said they have questioned whether they should remain in the church.

“For me at least, and for now at least, all roads do not seem to lead to Rome. This much I think I know: I don’t want a mediating structure getting between me and my God. I must be some kind of a Protestant.” - N. Review

“Given God’s teaching that we are either male or female, any acceptance of ‘transgender’ ideology is inimical to Christian anthropology. It rejects what God has revealed to us in our bodies and what He teaches us in His written word. We must refute claims that there are more than two sexes/genders and insist that people accept the reality of what God has done.

Contrary to the claim by some clergy that the sexual abuse problems in the Catholic Church stem from “clericalism” — excessive deference to priests and bishops — German Cardinal Walter Brandmuller said the fundamental problem is homosexuality in the priesthood.