By Catholic Arena The entire world is currently aghast at the almost year long ban on public Mass in Ireland. That ban has now been extended to include even outdoor Confessions, with Drew Harris’s Gardai now offering people the opportunity to confess their problems to them on public benches instead. Groups of 15 can now...
By John Horvat Two bloody beheadings by Islamic militants in France shocked the world. The French government and the media are trying to frame the attacks as only the work of isolated fanatics exposed to radicalised Islam. Such an evaluation is a mistake. Something more ominous is contained in these ghastly deeds. The crimes sent...
The triple crisis of COVID-19, civil unrest, and economic disaster is now shaking the West’s spiritual and material foundations and the world. This is no ordinary crisis since it questions our time-worn certainties, changes our daily lives, and restricts Church freedom. In the face of this crisis, many are stunned and wonder what went wrong....
Faithful Catholics are facing a new threat as bishops and priests are forbidding their flocks from receiving Communion in the traditional way that dates back to the era of the Church Fathers: on the tongue.1
If the Guinness Book of Records were to track the most senseless attitude possible, the award would probably go to someone who committed suicide for fear of dying. With the coronavirus epidemic, that is what the world is doing. It is playing out on the social scale, the very same chain reaction the SARS-CoV-2 virus(*)...
By Domenick Galatolo The Coronavirus is not the first epidemic to strike the world. Yet as churches are closed and the sacraments are difficult to find, the question arises: How did the Church and the saints deal with plagues in the past? In the golden pages of history, we find a holy bishop who faced...
