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Paris Blasphemy: What Took the Vatican So Long to Respond?COMMENTARY: The Vatican’s brief Aug. 3 statement in the wake of the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremonies culminated a disjointed seven days.It was a very strange week for Vatican communications. The week after the Paris Olympics’ opening ceremonies ought to have been comparatively easy for Vatican communications to handle. When there is a global denunciation of anti-Christian blasphemy, it ought to be simple for the Vatican to add its voice. But instead, the Holy Father kept silent for eight days, and only released a tepid statement on a Saturday evening in the...

[Catholic Caucus] The Vatican got almost everything wrong in its weak response to the Olympic blasphemyThe ceremony was not merely an offense against Christians; it was an offense against God. What the Vatican handled as a breach of good manners was in fact a deliberate blasphemy, a violation of God’s first commandment.(Catholic Culture) — What’s wrong with the Vatican statement on the Olympic blasphemy? Nearly everything.Start with the timing. More than a week passed between the opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics and the release of the tepid Vatican response. During that week thousands of people had expressed their shock...

Activists cry tears of joy over pro-abortion victory in Argentina…just like they did in IrelandThe scene was eerily similar to one that unfolded in Ireland in 2018.December 17, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – In what can only be described as a bizarre and even demonic display of pro-abortion ideology, women in Argentina last week wept tears of joy upon their country’s Congress advancing legislation legalizing abortion. The scene was eerily similar to one that unfolded in Ireland in 2018, when the formerly Catholic country voted overwhelmingly to repeal its pro-life 8th Amendment and legalize the killing of babies in the womb.In Ireland,...

Not Censure But Calculated Silence. A Letter From Argentina on the Pope and AbortionSettimo Cielo's previous post, “Pope Francis censured every time he speaks out against abortion,” has prompted a resounding critique from an authoritative Argentine reader, the philosopher José Arturo Quarracino, nephew of Cardinal Antonio Quarracino, Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s predecessor as head of the archdiocese of Buenos Aires.In his judgment, it is true that Pope Francis speaks tough words against abortion, but he does this so as to make no waves in the mainstream media, thus not enduring a sort of censure but deliberately posturing himself in accord with...