Reuters: Nigeria: A suicide bomber drove a vehicle full of explosives into a Roman Catholic church during morning Mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wounding more than 100 and triggering reprisal attacks that killed at least … Continue reading
CNA reports: An American couple living in China for 15 years says their success in rescuing over 1,000 medically-fragile orphans is due to totally relying on God, especially during trying times. Read more here.
Catholic Culture: The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals has handed a legal victory to a Louisiana Benedictine abbey whose monks were threatened with imprisonment for selling caskets without a license. More here.
One wonders which sin is worse: to have an abortion, or to vote in favor of a law that permits mothers to abort their babies? What matters more for the lawmakers, since “excommunication” is a penalty that can be unjustly … Continue reading
[Part I] Given all the years that have passed, and despite all of this history, one might well wonder why we should care about the French Monarchy and its claimants. It has been gone, after all, for a long time. … Continue reading
I just read an interesting article on Inside the Vatican website about the symbolism of the European flag. I had thought that it was just a coincidence that the flag is blue with a circle of twelve white stars. It … Continue reading
First Things: President Barack Obama, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, and countless supporters have claimed again and again that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms. President Obama did so in the second presidential debate, describing the “millions of women all across the country … Continue reading
CNA: A university employee who was placed on administration leave said that she has been humiliated and intimidated for her belief that Maryland voters should determine whether to implement a “gay marriage” law in the state. Read more here.
Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture: Not many American voters changed their minds as a result of last night’s presidential debate, I feel sure. Voters who favored Barack Obama before the debate generally felt that the President had the better of the … Continue reading
At 5:00 P.M., October 22, Rev. Michael Alexander Jarecki went to his reward, aged 95. Father Jarecki was a priest of the Ogdensburg, N.Y., Diocese, an ardent Apostle of Our Lady of Fatima, a longtime chaplain to Saint Benedict Center, … Continue reading
Former Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera—current Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments—will be the celebrant of the Pontifical Mass in the extraordinary form that will close the … Continue reading
AsiaNews (10:23) Joshua Lapide: A majority of Israeli Jews would support an apartheid regime in Israel to marginalise Palestinians in case the West Bank was annexed. A majority also explicitly favours discrimination against the state’s Arab citizens, a survey shows. The … Continue reading
Catholic Online: The Communist government of China is now entitled to anywhere between one to two years of your full household income – and they aim to collect. According to statistics released by the US Treasury Department and the Census … Continue reading
LifeNews: This past Sunday a friend of ours named Alex attended Mass in Washington, DC, at the well-known Holy Trinity Catholic Church, the Jesuit parish in Georgetown. Alex has been part of a Catholic outreach effort in several battleground states. Its specific … Continue reading
CNA: Uruguay’s bishops say that local lawmakers who recently voted to legalize abortion in the country are automatically excommunicated for separating themselves from the Church’s teaching. Read more here.
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