Priests are not “social workers”

"Before long we shall have priests reduced to the role of social workers and the message of faith reduced to a political vision."

- Joseph Ratzinger (later Benedict XVI), "Faith and the Future," 1969.

September 24th issue: The Wanderer Catholic Newspaper

 

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Cardinal Pizzaballa and the two-state solution

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, is sounding the alarm over the rapidly deteriorating situation in the West Bank, where escalating Israeli settler violence against Palestinians is taking place amid little effective security or legal accountability.

He described the West Bank as a “lawless land,” warning that settler aggression against Palestinians continues without effective security or legal restraints.

His message is clear: what is happening is not a series of isolated incidents. Israeli settler terrorism has become an ongoing reality in the West Bank, tensions continue to rise, and the lack of meaningful restraint or accountability is making the situation increasingly dangerous.

He also called for greater international diplomatic engagement, rejected the dehumanization of either people, and reaffirmed the two-state solution as the path forward for Israelis and Palestinians.

@IhabHassane

Last Spring,the most popular course at Yale was “Thr Catholic Intellectual Tradition”

“Last spring, the most popular history course at Yale was The Catholic Intellectual Tradition, a survey of Catholic thinking and writing from the first century to the present. It beat out such popular, evergreen classes as The Birth of Europe and The Roman Empire. I was asked to assist with this 85-student course as a teaching fellow. Each week, after scrolling past calls to defund the humanities and to automate the many jobs that make a liberal arts education possible, I found myself surrounded by eager students ready to engage with fourth-century Christology, medieval mysticism, World War II–era debates over “just war” theory, and much more.”

I Teach at Yale. There Are Gen Z Catholics All Around Me. I Know What Must Be Done.

Universities need to do more to connect with an increasingly religious student body.

BY SERGIO INFANTE

AUG 27, 20261:37 PM

Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Erick W. Rasco/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images and thinkomatic/iStock/Getty Images Plus.

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TODAY: Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Beatification

Livesreamed here at 2 pm:

https://www.celebratesheen.com/ 

Synodalism Marches On: Martyrs Need Not Apply

 To be "written in blood," meant (and still means) to make binding. God himself called the New Testament, written in His blood, an everlasting testament.

• 
  Fr. John A. Perricone

  Martyrs are now passé—for the Synodalist Church, that is. 

  Martyrs spilled their blood for Truth come down from Heaven. For the Synodalist, there is no truth, only transactional process.

  Who would die for that?

  For the Synodalist, truth is an antediluvian embarrassment—and so are martyrs.

  To the chagrin of faithful Catholics, the Synodal Church marches forward. Any religion worth its salt cringes at the sandbox therapeutics of this comedy parading as Catholicism.

  Our one consolation is that its only appeal lay in the tony salons of the outré theological gentry. They pride themselves as standing aloof from the smelly Catholic hoi polloi who still clutch their rosaries and prayer books, standing on confessional lines in heartfelt contrition. Synodalists and their fellow travelers such as America,The National Catholic Reporter, and the elite Catholic universities have been birthing a New Christianity, one not shackled to a spent millennial past. These Bright Young Things (forgive me, Mr. Waugh) are no longer victims to a literal Gospel which takes God at His word. Part of their sparkle is a proud new revision of the Gospel page, unimpeded by the rude objectivity of the past.

  More: https://x.com/sitsio/status/2093043212109971826?s=46&t=IydJ-X8H6c0NM044nYKQ0w

BREAKING: Rupnik victims speak out

Reported by Michael Haynes via Twitter:

JUST IN: Alleged Rupnik victims pen open letter to Pope Leo

They argue “it is useless to report abuse to church authorities, because nothing will happen anyway, no one will be held accountable, and the victims will never see justice”

Call for transparency & impartiality so that Rupnik's trial “remain free of any shadow of doubt.”

They note they only heard his trial was underway from media reports – Vatican has been silent 

On @CatholicHerald