Bad news just keeps coming — hard and fast. Many very recent events in the Church have faithful Catholics bewildered, discouraged, and even angered. These are natural reactions to the problem of evil. While righteous anger has its place in … Continue reading
Category: Current Issues in the Church
Iraqi Nuns Blast Western Media for Ignoring Jihad War on Christians
mrc Newsbusters: Sometimes it takes a David to defeat a Goliath – or, in this case, unassuming nuns to speak where the media remain silent. Speaking out for Christians persecuted in the Middle East, Mother Olga Yaqob and Sister Hatune … Continue reading
Iraqi Christian Women Tortured by Whips Preferred Death Than Apostasy
Catholic Herald: An Iraqi Christian woman described this week how she defied ISIS terrorists who put a sword to her throat and told her to either convert to Islam or lose her head. With the blade at her neck, she … Continue reading
Let us Remember the Little Ones – Amidst the Devastation of Divorce
In the recent months, Pope Francis has stated repeatedly that one should have more mercy with those Catholics who are divorced and remarried civilly. In the context of the current discussion within the Church about Divorce, and how to deal … Continue reading
League Criticizes Hibernians for Capitulating to Homosexual Group
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized the Ancient Order of Hibernians — organizers of New York’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade — for inviting a homosexual group to march in the 2015 parade. The parade committee said its “change … Continue reading
NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade Sells Out
Pat Archbold writes, in Cardinal Dolan and the NYC St. Patrick’s Gay Parade?: If reports are to be believed, a compromise is in the works that will amount to nothing less than an endorsement of the gay identity in the 2015 … Continue reading
Doing God’s Will
In his most important book, Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism, the great Spanish Catholic diplomat, statesman and political thinker Juan Donoso Cortes (1809-53), often called “the Spanish de Maistre,” wrote: “Governments seem to be endowed with an unerring instinct which teaches … Continue reading
Apostolic Nuncio to Cuba Blasts Communist Regime
American Catholic: If you want to know what is going on in Cuba, the Babalu blog is the go to blog. Carlos Eire tells us about the man who has just become my favorite papal nuncio: Archbishop Bruno Musarò, Apostolic Nuncio to Castrogonia, blasted the … Continue reading
Patriarchs Visit 100,000 Refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan
AsiaNews: It is in Iraq that the Church of the Arab world suffers today. That is where the passion of the mystical body of Christ is renewing itself, following the rule laid down by Saint Paul that “If [one] part … Continue reading
51 Iraqi Dominican Sisters, Family, Friends, Fled IS Terrorists, Destitute in Irbil
CNS: Dominican Sister Attracta Kelly in Adrian, Michigan, has been able to speak a few times with the superior of a group of Iraqi Dominicans and knows how desperate their situation is since they escaped Islamicists in northern Iraq. Sister … Continue reading
China: Unbending Underground Priest Released After 8 Years in Detention
UCANews: 52-year-old Father Joseph Lu Genjun from the unofficial community of Baoding of Hebei province was released on August 9 after eight years of isolation and imprisonment. At the time of his arrest, Father Lu had been carrying out the … Continue reading
Last Christian Villages in Iraq Taken Over by ISIS Jidahists
Aleteia: ISIS, the radical Islamist group that forced Christians out of Mosul with the threat of death, has taken control of most of the villages of the Nineveh Plain, the northern area where Iraqi Christians have hunkered down in what is … Continue reading
Moslem Fanatic Desecrates Basilica and Blessed Eucharist in France
Catholic Culture: Two churches in Thonon-les-Bains, a city of 30,000 in eastern France, were desecrated on August 5, according to Le Messager, a newspaper based in Chablais. More on this here.
Bishop Slattery Calls for 9 Days of Prayer and Fasting Against Scheduled Sacrilege
1Peter5: Tulsa Diocese Appeal: As has been widely reported, a Satanic Black Mass has been scheduled for September 21 in Oklahoma City’s Civic Center. As a part of Satanic worship, a Black Mass attempts to invert the action and meaning … Continue reading
Good News from France
From Gaza to Mosul to America’s southern border to Ukraine, there is an awful lot of Bad News — so much so that it deserves to be capitalized. We are assured of these things, however: “And where sin abounded, grace … Continue reading