uCatholic, Billy Ryan: Sitting Bull is the legendary first chieftain of the entire Lakota Sioux nation, a commonplace figure among the Wild West history of the American Frontier. Most everyone in grade school learns the history of his involvement with … Continue reading
America: Ted Gioia: A young boy approached Mark Twain one day, after spotting the famous author standing alone on a stone bridge in Redding, Conn. Twain was a familiar presence in the community, and the boy had awaited such a … Continue reading
Bishop James Conley of Lincoln joined them. And under his stewardship the diocese of Lincoln far excels any other US Diocese for priestly vocations. There is a priest here for every 598 Catholics. Compare that with Dallas, for instance, where … Continue reading
One wonders if a two-dimensional picture of Jesus is OK with these Baptists? A three-dimensional Jesus is just “too Catholic”. Which is to say, “too-Incarnational.” CNA, Mary Rezac: Jesus is being evicted from a South Carolina church, and he must be … Continue reading
CNA: A group devoted to John Bradburne, a lay missionary to what is now Zimbabwe in the 1970s, is raising money to fund an investigation into his life and virtues, in view of opening his cause for beatification. Story here.
AsiaNews: The Hong Kong Justice and Peace Commission has launched a campaign to get Chinese authorities to free Mgr Augustine Cui Tai, coadjutor bishop of Xuanhua (Hebei). The prelate disappeared in the hands of the police in mid-April 2018 and, since … Continue reading
The Remnant, Susan Claire Potts: When I was a little girl, ten years before I became a Catholic, I had enough Christian sense to know that a person was supposed to go to church on Sunday. My parents weren’t that interested…they … Continue reading
Fatima Perspectives, Chris Ferrara: The late Joe Sobran, writing back in 2010, coined the term “Darwiniac” to describe the fanatical ideologues who promote Darwinian and Neo-Darwinian evolutionism in the public schools and who succeeded in persuading a federal judge that … Continue reading
The blasphemy was drawn by a cartoonist named Tom Halliday. The Sunday Irish Independent is controlled by Ireland’s richest native born citizen, Denis O’Brien. He, the most powerful media man in Ireland, is worth about seven billion. He is a … Continue reading
Catholic Herald, Dave Armstrong: We are required to believe in Mary’s perpetual virginity, meaning that she was always a virgin and had no other children, and that Jesus’ birth was a miraculous one, not in any particular hypothesis accounting for … Continue reading
Was Father Alfred Kunz (+1998) a victim of these organized predators? Catholic Culture: Matt Abbott reminds readers on the Renew America site that in his book Furthermore! Memories of a Parish Priest–published in 1999, well before the sex-abuse scandal reached its peak—the late … Continue reading
This figure is from exit polls, see here. Just look at the photos of cheering young apostates. We can only conclude that a principal reason for the defection of the young is their cynicism of a corrupted clergy and the … Continue reading
This post was issued before the appalling result became known of Ireland’s landslide vote in favor of the murder of babies. Spirit Daily (from the Apostolate of Our Lady of Good Success): All hell has seemed to be unleashed on … Continue reading
ChurchPop: FOCUS missionary Ethan Stueve recently tweeted about an amazing story: in the 1970s there used to be a humanities program at the University of Kansas that got shut down because too many of its students were converting to Catholicism. Account is here.
Aleteia, Larry Peterson: Maria Cecilia Autsch was born in Rollecken, Germany, on March 26, 1900. She was the fifth of seven children and her dad, August, worked very hard as a machinist to keep his family fed. He and his … Continue reading
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