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Archbishop Cordileone responds to the 60 Democratic members of Congress who publicly protested the U.S. bishops plans to issue a teaching document on the Holy Eucharist.

It was a bit disconcerting, then, when on June 18, sixty Democratic members of Congress, all Catholics, issued a significant “Statement of Principles” in response to a decision by U.S. Catholic bishops to develop a teaching document on the nature of the Eucharist and its proper reception....

First Things

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone

Those who deny the truth should not imagine their actions immune to judgment

By the time his soul was returned to God ten years ago last month, Christopher Hitchens, who did not of course believe in God — or the soul — had managed to scarify a fair number of people with his slashing attacks on faith and religion. Some quite famous people, in fact.

For instance, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, whom he regarded as a pious fraud; indeed, going so far as to write an entire book, dripping with disdain, for his subject. Or the late Pope St. John Paul II, whom Hitchens regarded as positively senile...

National Catholic Register
Regis Martin