De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

"The modern world does not need a Church that echoes its confusion back to itself in softer language. It needs a Church confident enough to tell humanity the truth about the human person, about sin, about grace, about sexuality, about marriage, about salvation and about God. And to do that, the Church needs shepherds who believe those truths completely, without embarrassment, without calculation and without ambition." Watch my video about the report on "Hot Button Issues", which the Vatican downgraded to "Emerging Issues":

CNS reports Pope Francis at his weekly public audience in St. Peter's Square yesterday, elaborated on his previous week's talk on the subject of the "church as mother." The Pope said the Church should approach its members with the face of a patient, merciful and understanding mother, who always forgives her erring children and never ceases to pray that they resume the path of Christian living. "I like this image very much," he said, "because I think it tells us not only how the Church is, but also what sort of face the Church, this Church of ours, should have, more so every day." A mother teaches her children the right way of life "with tenderness, with affection, with love," he said, because she "didn't learn it from books, but learned it from her own heart." "The university of mammas is the heart itself," the pope said, in one of several uses of the informal Italian term "mamma." Pope F...