Rorate Caeli: Marco Tosatti reporting for La Stampa, exclusive: The Consistory on the 22nd February to discuss the family, was supposed to be secret. Instead a decision came from the top that it was opportune to publish Cardinal Kasper’s long … Continue reading
Category: Current Issues in the Church
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The UN’s Blindsided Assault on Vatican
These Stone Walls: Claudia Rosett, is journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and heads its investigative reporting project. Clearly, she is not someone with a defensive pro-Catholic axe to grind. Her article [Wall Street Journal, “The U.N. Assault on the … Continue reading
‘You Have a Right’; Thank You, Your Excellencies
How often to we hear “human rights” invoked to justify immorality? “I got my rights, ya know!” is a frequent refrain in modern discourse — emanating more often from man’s concupiscible appetite than from his intellect. But we do have … Continue reading
Converting at Boston College, to Atheism
On April 13, 1949, Fr. Keleher, the President of Boston College, fired Dr. Fakhri Maluf, James R. Walsh, and Charles Ewaskio from the faculty at Boston College for accusing the school of heresy against defined dogma, and supporting Father Leonard … Continue reading
Cardinal Burke on Cardinal Kasper’s ‘Error’ on Marriage
Cardinal Kasper’s text is becoming a “rallying point” for those who would change Catholic doctrine on marriage. Cardinal Burke would like to undo the “error” that his German brother in the College of Cardinals is propagating. The progressivists insist on … Continue reading
Cardinal Burke Says ‘No Compromise’ on Faith and Moral Issues
Cardinal Burke interview with Radici Cristiane: The Eponymous Flower: “An end to the silence, an end to the anxiety, an end to the cowardice. It is necessary to bear witness to the truth of Christ to affirm the natural right to … Continue reading
Heroic Nigerians Go to Sunday Mass Risking Their Lives
Zenit: More than 2,000 people in northern Nigeria risked their lives by turning out for Sunday Mass yesterday (16th March) while their city was being bombed. Describing St Patrick’s Cathedral, Maiduguri, as “packed”, Father John Bakeni, the celebrant at the Mass, said people … Continue reading
Pope Receives Head of Ukrainian Catholic Church
Zenit: Pope Francis today received in private audience His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc in Ukraine. The meeting followed yesterdays referendum in which pro-Russian voters on the Crimean peninsula voted to secede from Ukraine. The United States and … Continue reading
Defending Faith and Morals is not a Distraction
An editorial in The Anchor has taken the view that protecting the Irish-Catholic identity of a Saint Patrick’s Day parade from homosexual activists is a “distraction” from “our Lenten call.” They also took the occasion to smear Father Leonard Feeney. … Continue reading
Teaching Catholicism Is the One True Religion May Be Outlawed in Quebec
The Christian Post:The Canadian Supreme Court is set to decide whether teachers at private religious schools in the province of Quebec will be allowed to share their faith with students, in a case concerning a Catholic high school that is … Continue reading
What is Going on in Ukraine? [Updated]
The question, “What is Going on in Ukraine?” is still quite relevant after the revolution there has succeeded in taking power. Therefore, I update this posting with links to some relevant articles on the subject. Readers with thoughts of their … Continue reading
A Well-Deserved ‘Bravo’ to a Catholic Brother Standing up for Morality
Brother Thomas Augustine, M.I.C.M., is the Superior of Saint Benedict Center in Harvard, Massachusetts, and the Principal of that community’s Immaculate Heart of Mary School. He has publicly stood up for Catholic morals against those who would, in the name … Continue reading
Grave Threat to Church Authority: German Bishops on Communion for Divorced
Matt Talbot, Renew America: The following is a good letter to the editor, written by Father Brian W. Harrison, O.S., of St. Louis, Mo., that appears (in slightly abbreviated form) in the February 2014 issue of Inside the Vatican magazine. “Dear Dr. [Robert] … Continue reading
The Mass Slaughters of Revolutionary Atheism
The Imaginative Conservative, Joseph Pearce: There are lies, damned lies, and neo-atheist polemics. One of the most egregious examples of such godless mendacity is the claim that religion has been the cause of most of the wars that have blighted … Continue reading
Congratulations to the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM)
We are happy to welcome the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s growing family of falsely so-called hate groups. Click here and scroll down to “District of Columbia,” where you will see C-FAM … Continue reading