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Washington DC, Jul 19, 2008 / 12:18 am (CNA).- Some supporters of traditional marriage are protesting the fast food corporate giant McDonald’s over its decision to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) and its spokesman’s remarks suggesting those who disapprove of homosexual acts are driven by hatred.

The American Family Association had organized a boycott of McDonald’s for joining the NGLCC, Cybercast News Service reports. The boycott coalition also objects to the corporation’s donation of $20,000 to the chamber and the chamber membership of Richard Ellis, McDonald’s vice president of communications.  Read article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.22.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Lifesite News reports:

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – A leading expert on the brutal campaign of forced abortions and sterilizations that accompany China’s one-child family planning policy is urging a boycott of the Summer Olympics. Steven Mosher, of the Population Research Institute, says the games will legitimatize China’s abhorrent human rights records. Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.17.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

I had to delete yesterday’s post that had just the opposite headline.  The false information came from unofficial sources.  Sorry.

Here’s an accurate post from The London Telegraph:

More evidence this morning that Catholic liberals are panicking at the prospect of an influx of conservative Anglicans. They want us to believe that Pope Benedict is “shunning defectors” in an attempt to shore up the position of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Not true.

Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.17.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Vittorio Messori is one of the most famous catholic writers and journalist in Italy, writes editorials on Il Corriere della Sera. Among his books, the best sellers “Hypothesis on Jesus” (1976), “Crossing the Threshold of the Hope” (1994) with Pope John Paul II and “Hypothesis on Mary” (2005). Messori, who converted to catholicism in his late twenties, is the only one who interviewed two Popes, John Paul II and Benedictus XVI.

Messori also authored The Ratzinger Report, which was a huge best seller in the mid 1980s.  This interview here is poorly translated, but the common sense of it is refreshing amidst the babble of false ecumenism.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.16.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

“I discerned, through prayer, that it was calling me to the Catholic Church. I do not want this call to pass me by.”

Hilgenbrinck accepted the calling on Monday when he left the New England Revolution and retired from professional soccer to enter a seminary, where he will spend the next six years studying theology and philosophy so he can be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest.

“It’s not that I’m ready to leave soccer. I still have a great passion for the game,” he said in a telephone interview. “I wouldn’t leave the game for just any other job. I’m moving on for the Lord. I want to do the will of the Lord, I want to do what he wants for me, not what I want to do for myself.”

Full story here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.16.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Is this the same Brazil whose Parliament rejected a bill legalizing abortion 33-0?  I am confused.  What is going on in this country?

Rio de Janeiro, Jul 15, 2008 / 01:36 pm (CNA).- The Brazilian Senate is considering a bill approved unanimously and without debate by the country’s House of Representatives that aims to promote homosexuality and prohibit Christian teaching on the issue, under the guise of combating discrimination.  More here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.15.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Sorry, I couldn’t help posting this one from some site called The Smoking Gun.

JUNE 5–Last June, Matthew Lincoln was attending an evening service at his nondenominational Tennessee church when he approached the altar where a visiting minister was offering individual prayers for parishioners. Assigned “catchers” were present on the altar in case congregants fainted, fell, or otherwise lost control. When the minister, Robert Lavala, slightly touched his forehead, the Knoxville-area man “received the spirit and fell backwards.” Except nobody was there to catch him, Lincoln charges in a $2.5 million lawsuit filed yesterday against Lakewind Church and its pastors. Read more.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.15.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Father Corapi pulls no punches in this discerning article for Lifesite News.  Here is a clip.

“In recent years it took the form of a self-inflicted heart wound when some dissident Catholics rejected the teaching of the Church, a teaching that clearly held that artificial contraception is intrinsically evil.

Then, as Pope Paul VI had warned, it metastasized into abortion. From abortion it degenerated even further into partial-birth abortion. It was then a short and easy step to infanticide.

The exclamation point at the end of the death wish is that now there is yet another candidate for the office of president of the United States who has in an extraordinary way done everything possible to breathe life into all of the barbaric elements of the death wish.

He and his party make no apologies for their support of abortion, partial-birth abortion, and even infanticide. It’s hard to believe that we have degenerated to the point that we’ll murder a helpless baby should it escape the violence of an abortion and be born alive. Can a Catholic vote for such persons?”

Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.15.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

From news.com.au

“Speaking to the colourful crowd of pilgrims, waving flags from countries from around the world, Dr Pell told them that following Christ required struggle, sacrifice and self-discipline.

“Following Christ is not cost free, not always easy, because it requires struggling against what St Paul called ‘the flesh’ - old fat relentless egos, old fashioned selfishness,” he said in his homily.”  Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.15.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Here is a clip from a speech he recently gave to the graduating class at Catholic University:

“But see, there’s more. Once you’ve gotten past the mirror phase, then things begin to get really interesting. You begin to confront the truly overwhelming question: Why am I here? And that begins to open up the whole universe, because it impels you to think like the child staring out at the starry night: “Who put the lights in the sky? Who put me here? Why?”

And pretty soon you are thinking about God. Don’t shrink from pondering God’s role in the universe or Christ’s. You see, it’s trendy to reject religious reflection as a grave offense against decency. That’s not only cowardly. That’s false. Faith and reason are knitted together in the human soul. So don’t leave home without either one. ”

Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.14.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

(CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE LEGISLATIVE ACTION ALERT, 13 JUL 2008) On Tuesday July 15, 2008, the Massachusetts State Senate is likely to vote on Senate Bill 800, AN ACT CONCERNING MARRIAGE LAWS, which would repeal a 1913 statute preventing out-of-state couples from marrying in the Commonwealth if their attempted marriage was illegal in their home state.This special interest legislation for the homosexual lobby will, if passed, turn the Bay State into a homosexual and lesbian version of Las Vegas. More significantly however, it will potentially inflict the dishonest and contrived Goodridge decision on every other state in the Union. As events in Massachusetts and California have demonstrated, homosexual activists prefer the battering ram of the courts to the ballot box of democracy. This measure will enable them to litigate in their home states, inviting state supreme court decisions which will invent a right to same gender marriage. If passed by the Senate on Tuesday, the repeal bill will be taken up by the House of Representatives later in the week.

Please call and/or e-mail both your state senator and your state representative on Monday, or before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, and strongly urge them to oppose Senate Bill 800!

You may call the main State House number (617) 722-2000 and ask for your legislator’s office, or click on the following links for their telephone numbers and e-mail addresses:

SENATE: http://www.mass.gov/legis/memmenus.htm

HOUSE: http://www.mass.gov/legis/memmenuh.htm

Here in Massachusetts, marriage has been deformed and the family has been redefined. The right of public school parents to control the moral education of their own children is being usurped. Boston Catholics have been deprived of church-based adoption services. If the homosexual agenda continues to advance, we may soon confront the conditions which prevail north of the border in Canada, where freedom of speech and freedom of religion are being directly imperiled. Please contact your legislators before Tuesday’s vote!

newseditor :: Jul.13.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Rabbi Yehuda Levin:

“Until the religious leaders totally take on the corrupt justices in the various countries, the corrupt courts, the corrupt political leaders and name them and prohibit voting for such people based on religious reasons…

- until this happens we are going to continue to see the other side taking unfair advantage and further polluting the culture and brainwashing a younger generation as to the basic standards of right and wrong.”  More here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.10.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Zenit Reports

“The French press reported that rescued hostage Betancourt will visit Lourdes to give thanks for her rescue which she said she considers a miracle.” More here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.10.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

This is an extremely encouraging news piece, a must read.  President Uribe in Colombia seems like another Garcia Moreno.

Bogotá, Jul 9, 2008 / 01:00 pm (CNA).- The recitation of the Rosary has become, for an increasing number of Colombians, the secret behind the new phase the country is entering.  Many Colombians also view the Rosary as the “secret weapon” that made the recent rescuing of 15 hostages possible - without a single shot fired. Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.10.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Jerusalem, Jul 9, 2008 / 01:14 am (CNA).- A tablet with messianic overtones reputedly from before the time of Christ has become a topic of debate in biblical and archaeological circles. While one scholar claims the find could “shake our basic view of Christianity,” a Catholic Professor of Scripture suggests the tablet is actually evidence for the historical probability of Christian belief.

The three-foot tall tablet bears 87 lines of Hebrew which speak of a messiah who will suffer and rise from the dead after three days. The tablet was probably found near the Dead Sea in Jordan and has been characterized as a “Dead Sea Scroll in Stone,” the International Herald-Tribune reports.

Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.09.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

From AP Report:

“His opposition to Communism defined his foreign policy views. He took a dim view of many arms control treaties, opposed Fidel Castro at every turn, and supported the contras in Nicaragua as well as the right-wing government of El Salvador. He opposed the Panama Canal treaties that President Carter pushed through a reluctant Senate in 1977. ” More here.

Just FYI, interesting data: Our second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the same day in 1826.   That day was July 4.  Our fifth president, James Monroe, also died on July 4th.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.08.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Part of the letter decrying the rabid injustices of the gay activist legal patron reads:

“Each judgment emanating out of our various Human Rights Commissions seems to be more brazen and bizarre than the one that preceded it. However, for inane stupidity and gross miscarriage of justice our own Alberta Human Rights Tribunal deserves to take first prize for its treatment of Stephen Boissoin.

June 2008: The Alberta Human Rights Tribunal fined Stephen Boissoin, $5,000.”

Full letter can be read here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.08.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) - Representatives from Madonna House, a Catholic community based in Combermere, Ontario, will make the journey to Ottawa Tuesday morning to return the Order of Canada medal awarded to its founder, Catherine Doherty.

The move is in response to the awarding of one of Canada’s highest honours to Dr. Henry Morgentaler, as announced by the Governor General’s Office on July 1, 2008.

Read more here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.08.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

Msgr. Herbert Bevard has had some great friends throughout his priesthood, friends who have helped him excel in one of the Church’s most needed apostolates: that of bringing non-Catholics into the Faith.
Who are these friends? Well first, there’s the Blessed Mother, to whom this former Protestant attributes his vocation.
Then, there’s St. Katharine Drexel whose great devotion to the Eucharist and life of service has been such an inspiration. Msgr. Bevard got to experience firsthand her great influence after spending five years as the chaplain for her order, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
Finally, there’s the Infant of Prague. It was the Infant of Prague who gave Msgr. Bevard great comfort as a child, when his parents refused to allow him to become Catholic.

Full story here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.08.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off

The Sunday Telegraph carries the news that senior Church of England bishops have met the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to discuss the apocalyptic crisis in Anglicanism and the prospect of converting to Roman Catholicism. Full article here.

Brian Kelly :: Jul.07.2008 :: Uncategorized :: Comments Off