LifeNews.com: Following early reports that the United States and China struck a deal for Chen to reportedly stay in China, the forced abortion opponent says the Obama administration has abandoned him and he now seeks help in leaving the country. … Continue reading
UCANews: Blind dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy after staying there for six days, according to a news brief from Xinhua News Agency around 3:30pm (7:30am GMT) today. Read more here.
Catholic Culture: A self-insured Catholic-owned business has filed a lawsuit that could potentially stop the Obama administration’s contraception and abortion-causing drug mandate within the next three months. More on this here.
Catholic Culture: Father Pierre-Adrien Toulorge (1757-93), a Norbertine priest martyred during the French Revolution, was beatified on April 29 at the cathedral in Coutances, France. Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided at the … Continue reading
After 27 days in detainment, the national head of the Patriotic Union of Cuba, Jose Daniel Ferrer, could face life imprisonment if he does not obey the Communist government’s order that he suspend dissident activities. Read more here.
Catholic Culture: Speaking at a conference in Rome, the dean of the Roman Rota suggested the need for a more rigorous interpretation of a provision in canon law that is cited in many annulment cases. Read more here.
The Obama administration is defending its use of drones to assassinate people outside of combat zones without due process. In the linked article, the organizations cited against the government’s position in the matter are all leftist (like, for instance, the … Continue reading
CatholicOnline: Wasps usually send out warning signs to humans to run away or get out of the wasp’s orbit straightaway. However – a new species of wasp discovered in Indonesia will inspire people to turn tail and run. Horrifically huge, … Continue reading
Let’s pray that these successors of the Apostles continue to grow in fortitude in denouncing any compromise with the abortion machine, especially with lawmakers who fund it with taxpayer money. Catholic Culture: For the 2nd time in less than a … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: Speaking at a panel discussion at Harvard University, Cardinals Jaime Ortega y Alamino of Havana and Sean O’Malley of Boston agreed that greater freedom for the Church followed in the wake of Blessed John Paul’s 1998 visit to … Continue reading
THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: “In a stunning announcement on Monday, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (via the apostolic nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano) has just laid the heaviest burden in 2,000 years on the shoulders of Catholic … Continue reading
Considering the age of the Church and that her visible head is bishop of the Eternal City, this news item is only slightly dated. The New York Times quoted the Holy Father saying some apostolically blunt words to an Italian … Continue reading
CNS report: First, a couple of schools. Then, several U.S. parishes. Now … a fine craft beer? Many things have been named after St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai, but none was more surprising than a recent discovery at a … Continue reading
Wisconsin State Journal: Madison Catholic Bishop Robert Morlino has moved to quell a backlash against a group of conservative priests in Platteville by warning parishioners they risk formal church censure unless they stop spreading “rumors and gossip.” Read more here.
The subject of the lines that follow is one about which I’ve written on this website before: the unmistakable and awful signs of a new barbarism rising from the ruins of what used to be Christian civilization. It is not … Continue reading
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