The disintegration of formation and discipline means that the Church’s baptismal registers – in many parts of the world – no longer provide moral certainty as to validity of baptism. There is now an urgent need for widespread access to conditional baptism, confirmation, and ordination.
The liturgical reformers of the 1960s thoroughly altered every sacrament and sacramental, every office of prayer and penance, everything connected with divine worship. How has it turned out?
As a Catholic in the U.S. striving to be faithful, it can seem like a depressing time to be alive. How would the saints respond if they walked the earth today?
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, marriage is a friendship of virtue, premised on the most proper human goods and a sharing in the totality of the life of the household.
Fr. Ewald Volgger hopes it's only a matter of time before the Church ‘recognizes a same-sex relationship as a common development of the baptismal vocation’