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CUP Statement on Fr. Altman’s Video – Bergoglio is Not the Pope
By Vicki Yamasaki Six days ago, Fr. Altman released a video that was seismic in the Catholic community where he made the statement that Pope Francis is not the pope. This matter has drawn widespread attention. Fr. Altman is a friend of mine so I called to...
The Danger Zone: The Lost Sense of Sin
By Raul Zavaleta If you seek to understand how society is changing the basis for its morality, you will notice that the role of religion has been diminished resulting in a lost sense of sin. It is common to view sin now, not as a transgression of the law of God, but...
The Danger Zone: Hot Summer
By Raul Zavaleta With this year’s hot summer weather, the alarmism of “Climate Changers” has been hot as well. Here are three quotes: Michael Mann, Environmentalist at Penn State University speaking in July: Now the warming has reached the point where we're...
(Don’t) Take Me Out to the Ballgame
By Catholic Wise Guy I had a long and beautiful relationship with baseball, and it pains me to say, “Don’t Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” Forget the peanuts and cracker jacks, I’m not root, rooting for my home team or any team, not even the Cubs. One, two, and three...
The Demise of Personal Responsibility
By Raul Zavaleta Personal responsibility is the willingness to both accept the importance of standards that society establishes for individual behavior and to make strenuous personal efforts to live by those standards. But personal responsibility also means that when...
God’s Children Are Not For Sale
By Professor Timothy J.A. O’Donnell Feast of St. Mary Killop 2023 The 4th of July is by far my favorite national holiday. Everything about it – here, what comes to mind are the three F’s: family, food, fireworks – signify our natural love of Country and heartfelt...
Freedom Requires Responsibility
By Monsignor Joseph F. Schaedel, Pastor St. Luke Catholic Church Indianapolis Fourth of July Homily Philippians 4: 6-9; John 14: 23-29 July 4, 2023 Perhaps the most famous symbol for our nation—other than the flag—is The Statue of liberty. It was a gift...
Eucharistic Congress
By Vicki YamasakiThe 2024 Eucharistic Congress is a gathering of clergy, religious and laity to bear witness to the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. It will take place on July 17-21, 2024, in Indianapolis and is expected to draw at least 80,000 from across the...
Disbelief in the Real Presence in the Eucharist
By Vicki Yamasaki There is much talk of the Eucharistic Congress and we have just had Eucharistic processions take place to celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord, Corpus Christi. This has had me in deep reflection so this week’s...
ng-Iconoclasm
By Professor Timothy J.A. O'DonnellThe “Triumph of Orthodoxy” (as it is known) on March 11, 843 AD marks the official end of the great heresy of Iconoclasm. More than a thousand years later Iconoclasm is being inflicted on us once again. In this essay, I will briefly...
The Downward Mental Health Spiral of our Youth
Recently, the CDC reported that in 2021, 42% of students felt persistently sad or hopeless and 29% experienced poor mental health with 22% of them seriously considering suicide, and 10% attempting suicide. This was more pronounced in girls; nearly 60% of teenage girls...
The “Social Justice” Con
The term "social justice" is now commonly used by activists, clergy, educators, judges, corporate leaders, and politicians to describe the version of how society should work. Originally a Catholic term, “social justice” was first used about 1840 in Theoretical...
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