When I used to walk through Branch Brook Park on my way home from high school in Newark, New Jersey, I would see elderly Italian men throwing little bowling balls on a paved court about ten feet wide and twenty … Continue reading
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Sick Monsters at Planned Parenthood Harvesting Organs Illegally for Profit
LOS ANGELES, July 14 (Center for Medical Progress) — New undercover footage shows Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Senior Director of Medical Services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, describing how Planned Parenthood sells the body parts of aborted fetuses, and admitting she … Continue reading
German ‘Radio Vatikan’ Undermines Moral Magisterium with Graphic Homoeroticism
On July 2, Radio Vatikan, the German branch of the official Vatican radio station, published a highly troubling article which summed up the claims of the theologian and president of the European Association of Catholic Theology, Father Martin Lintner, OSM, of … Continue reading
China: Government Stealing Millions from Shanghai Diocese
Bishop Aloysius Jin, before he died, made a deal with the Chinese government to give the Party money for certain concessions. There were no positive concessions, and the government began siphoning off whatever money it could, hiding it in national banks. This … Continue reading
Resisting Big Government’s Marriage Overreach
Father Mark Pilon thinks that the Government — the States — should get out of the marriage business now that the State has rejected any compelling interest in maintaining an institution that SCOTUS has redefined into oblivion. Instead, religious bodies should do the … Continue reading
Chris Ferrara’s Interview with Mike Church, a Philosophy Student of Brother Francis
We’ve told our readers about Mike Church before. Now, Chris Ferrara has interviewed Mike for The Remnant. The interview features questions and answers about Mike’s reversion to Catholicism, his conversion to tradition, and his love of the traditional Mass. The major thrust, … Continue reading
More Unusual Happenings in the Lives of Saints
Nine months ago I related several humorous and fascinating anecdotes from the lives of the saints in “Just a Few Unusual Happenings in the Lives of the Saints.” Here are some more. One of my favorites is not really spectacular, … Continue reading
Steve Wood’s Warning on Degenerate Proselytism in the Wake of Obergefell
A friend just sent me a newsletter he gets from Steve Wood. It concerns Obergefell v. Hodges and the terrible prospects that wicked bit of judicial activism holds out for our youth. My correspondent is of the opinion that Mr. Wood is one of the few … Continue reading
Rod Dreher on Obergefell and Living as Exiles
Rod Dreher has authored a thoughtful piece for Time on Friday’s horrible SCOTUS decision: Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country. I recommend reading it. He plugs his “Benedict Option,” which is, for all practical purposes, … Continue reading
Catholic Action League Denounces Supreme Court Decision on Same Sex Marriage
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized this morning’s decision by the U. S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that both the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of … Continue reading
Two Mites and Spiritual Abundance
And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a … Continue reading
Don Bosco, EENS, and the Waldensians
Thanks to the rare occasion of a big Waldensian-related event hitting the news cycle, we take the opportunity to show what the charitable and zealous Saint John Bosco said in their regard, especially since it falls right in line with our apostolate. As we … Continue reading
German Bishops Help the Church ‘Question Herself’ about Family Diversity ahead of Synod
In the bizarro world that is modern German Catholicism — at least as dictated by those who consider themselves practically independent of the papacy — the Church should “question herself” about the different forms the family takes. Read this nominalist, blasphemous … Continue reading
Glimpses Behind Closed Doors: Marco Tosatti on Cardinal Kasper’s Self-Correction
While observers of the discussion concerning the Synod of Bishops on Marriage and the Family are still wondering what it was that has recently caused Cardinal Walter Kasper suddenly (but stammeringly) to deny that which he had claimed a year or … Continue reading
Butte, Montana, Our Lady’s Town
With all the bad news in the Church and the world, it is an encouragement to read about the Catholic love for Mary in a mining city in the 630 mile-wide “mountain state,” Montana. This is part of American Catholic … Continue reading
