News - February 2025 RSS Feed

Cultural knowledge is evaporating, so – let’s make sure that missives from bishops use the lingo of contemporary journalism, vaporous and ridden with cliches, and let’s discourage priests from spending time to unfold the meaning of Scripture.

Then, there is distortion of mission. The USCCB spends something like $1 million per year on evangelization and catechesis, $1 million on Catholic education, and $2 million on pro-life work. It certainly gives no appearance of being a major advocate of tax relief for Catholic parents who want to send their children to Catholic schools. And yet Vatican II teaches explicitly that parents do not enjoy a right to religious liberty if they have to pay twice to educate their children.