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News Headlines from our Apostolate and around the World
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Alternative news sources for secular news. Here is a list of online news sources that don’t reheat the standard New-York-Times-CNN-BostonGlobe-HuffPo-etc-etc-approved version of what goes on in the world. We in no way endorse the editorial policies of these organizations, but neither could we do the same for the common media outlets.
- Aljazeera
- Andrew Cusack (not news per se, but has many news items and links)
- American Spectator
- Human Events
- Info Wars
- Information Clearing House
- Interfax (and Interfax Religion)
- Israel-Palestine: The Missing Headlines
- RT (Russia Today)
- The American Conservative
- The New American
- Vatican Information Service
Colin Powell’s Book Indicts Cheney for Misinformation and Bypassing NSC to Push Iraq War
Huff Post Politics: In his new book, former Secretary of State Colin Powell provides what may be the most authoritative confirmation yet that there was never a considered debate in the George W. Bush White House about whether going to war in Iraq was really a good idea. Read full article here.
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Ursuline Nuns at Dallas Academy Laud Melinda Gates’ Contraception Campaign
LifeSite News: A group of Ursuline nuns whom billionaire Melinda Gates had claimed in a recent speech supports her campaign to inject tens of millions of women in impoverished countries with Depo-Provera and other contraceptive drugs, has issued a statement defending Gates and the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, while simultaneously claiming to support Catholic moral teaching. Read more on this here.
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Swiss Guard: Chaplain Takes Their Spiritual Formation Very Seriously
Catholic Culture: The chaplain of the Swiss Guards has revealed that some Swiss Guards have not been practicing Catholics or made an individual confession before joining the corps. Read more here.
Moslem Persecution of Church Escalates in Lebanon
Catholic Culture: A Lebanese priest who baptized a Muslim woman has been kidnapped and released. More on this here.
Chicoms Open Banks in US
(AFP) The United States on Wednesday opened its banking market to ICBC, China’s biggest bank, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. Just days after high-level US-China economic talks in Beijing, the Federal Reserve approved an application from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to buy a majority stake in the US subsidiary of Bank of … More →
More on Registering Pre-Born for Visitor Count to Tour President’s Home
LifeNews: A member of Congress has a sarcastic take on the controversy generated by the Obama administration over a White House visitors policy that requires pregnant women to register their unborn children when they check in at the front door. Read more here.
Bishop McManus Asked Not to Attend Graduation at Local Catholic College
Catholic Culture: Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed not to attend commencement exercises at a local Catholic college, after he roused controversy by opposing the school’s choice of a commencement speaker. More on the why of this here.
Wales: Education Minister Says Catholic Schools Must Provide Material Favoring Same-Sex ‘Marriage’
Catholic Culture: Catholic schools in Wales have been informed that they must provide their students with a “balanced” perspective on same-sex marriage. More here.
Catholic Action League Raps Anna Maria College for Snub to Bishop
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized Anna Maria College —founded by the Sisters of Saint Anne — for its decision to disinvite the Bishop of Worcester, the Most Reverend Robert J. McManus, to the school’s May 19th commencement ceremonies. During a meeting with the bishop on May 3rd, college president Jack Calareso and board of trustees chairwoman Sister Yvette Bellerose asked McManus to … More →
WH Visitors Office Requires Pregnant Mothers to Register Pre-Born Babies for Tour Count
The Washington Free Beacon: The White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child—still residing in utero—must be counted as a full human being when its parents register for a White House tour, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Read more here.
Despite Media Reports, Fate of Chen Guangcheng and Family Is Obscure
UCANews: The fate of the blind and self-taught legal advocate Chen Guangcheng and his family was under the spotlight as US Secretary for State Hillary Clinton visited China last week for the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing. More on this here.
Vatican Tells UN to Respect Parental Rights and Homeschooling
(The New American) As some totalitarian-minded governments escalate their attacks on parental rights and homeschooling, the Vatican’s delegation to the United Nations called on the world to respect families, the rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, and non-governmental forms of education. The Holy See’s representatives also called on governments last week to stop indoctrinating the youth. Read more…
Beautiful Kiwi Socialite, Oxford Grad, Quit High Life to Join Benedictine Cloister
She could have been Britain’s First Lady but she chose to become a Benedictine nun. 44 year old Laura Adshead dated British Prime Minister, David Cameron, from spring 1990 to summer 1991. In 2008, after seeing her life slip more and more deeply into a spiral of gossip, alcohol and drugs, the dazzling blond decided to take her vows as a Benedictine nun, becoming Sister … More →
Book Review of ‘Church Militant: Bishop Kung and the Catholic Resistance in Communist Shanghai’
Thomas J. Craughwell for National Catholic Register: No China scholar wants to answer a knock on the door and find Chinese government officials standing at his doorstep. Yet, in 2006, that is what happened to Jesuit Father Paul Mariani. He had traveled to China to research how the Communist Party crushed the Catholic Church in Shanghai, one of the most dynamic Catholic communities in the … More →
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