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Saul, Saul, Why Persecutest Thou Me? Torch of The Faith News on Saturday 12 May 2018 - 04:15:02 | by admin Still-picture from the good Frank Walker's Canon 212, depicting the No to Rigid Hypocrisy video. Those Pesky Kids... A slick propaganda video has been released onto the internet, which features Francis returning again to criticisms of one of his favourite groups of, some might say, straw men; those ''rigid youths'' who are supposedly blighting the Church in our day. And so, in a week during which God has been given grave offence, real Catholics the world over have been utterly...

Chicago’s Cardinal Blase Cupich just gave a big speech defending Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation. From the National Catholic Reporter‘s take: The third of Cupich’s principles calls the conscience of the individual person an “essential” element in the task of discerning how God is calling them to live their life.The cardinal cites at length from paragraph 303 of the exhortation: “Conscience can do more than recognize that a given situation does not correspond objectively to the overall demands of the Gospel. It can also recognize with sincerity and honesty what for now is the most generous response which can...

DENVER, Colorado, February 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – As the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae approaches, the “liberating truth” of Church teaching on human sexuality must be proclaimed to the “increasingly confused” world, Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver wrote in a new pastoral letter. In his pastoral letter, titled The Splendor of Love, Aquila wrote that although contraception has wrecked much of the culture and family life, not all is lost and there are great opportunities for people in every state of life to live and share Catholic teaching. Catholics must have a “strong commitment” to defend authentic love, Aquila said,...