I want to begin these lines by setting a positive tone. As a journalist who has written for most of the nation’s conservative or Traditional Catholic publications, during the past half century I have dealt close-up with more high-ranking Churchmen … Continue reading
Category: Current Issues in the Church
Asia Bibi Book: ‘Blasphemy: A Memoir’ Now Available in English
Asia Bibi’s book, Blasphemy: A Memoir: Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water is now available. This is the Pakistani mother of five whom I spoke about at last year’s conference. Here is an excerpt from the book: More … Continue reading
Egypt: Morsi’s Ouster Sparks Violence Against Christians
Catholic Online (Taken from end of report): The last point highlights a growing danger for Christian communities which have seen a rise in violence since Morsi\’s ouster against individual Christians, priests, and churches. Indeed some priests have been murdered and various churches have been … Continue reading
Prayer and Petition for the FFI
Ave Maria! The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary express our deep fraternal respect and sympathy to our friends in the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. A most troubling situation has afflicted their community. We have avoided saying anything … Continue reading
If We Can Do Nothing Else We Owe the Christians of the Mid-East Fervent Prayers
AsiaNews, Fady Noun: A free people interpreting the pain Jesus endured, sharing it on the stages of work, in the mines, the hospitals, in the tombs of hope and its cradles provided the magnificent, dazzling show young Brazilians put on for … Continue reading
Why Hell Needs to Be Preached from the Housetops
Over the last fifty years, the Catholic faithful have become increasingly more presumptuous, believing that if one is judged to be a “good person” by his fellow human beings, his soul would immediately go to heaven. The notion that he … Continue reading
Catholic Couple in Custody in Pakistan, Latest Victims of ‘Blasphemy Law’
The outrageous “blasphemy law” of Pakistan is meant to muzzle Catholics from ever expressing their Faith in public. Some of the accused are assassinated, or killed by mobs, others, like Asia Bibi, still languish in wretched prisons. One thousand Christians … Continue reading
Helmut Schuller, Austrian Modernist, Speaks in Dedham, Mass.
On Wednesday night, former monsignor Helmut Schuller spoke at the First Church and Parish in Dedham (Unitarian Universalist), following a decision by Cardinal Sean O’Malley prohibiting Saint Susanna’s Parish in Dedham from showcasing the Austrian dissident. Saint Susanna’s, along with … Continue reading
Reflections on the Power of Islam
It was on April 1, 2013 (April Fool’s Day) that the following headline appeared on MSN News: Lego scraps Star Wars toy Jabba after ‘anti-Muslim’ complaints. A group called the Turkish Cultural Association of Austria complained that Jabba, a Star … Continue reading
‘Eurabia’ Demographics a Myth?
The common view of matters demographic in Europe is that Europeans will become vastly outnumbered by Moslem immigrants on their own continent. That view is being challenged by an American scholar, Philip Jenkins, whose argument is resonating by some in … Continue reading
The Phony Liberty
From the Pantheon, renamed the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Martyrs. “The Roman Empire had religious liberty too,” says Voris. What is the nature of liberty? Is it the freedom to define your own truth as you see fit … Continue reading
Devirilization of the Church
Two unrelated posts from two sites on the Internet bring to our attention the “devirilization” of the Church, that is, the stripping away of virtuous Catholic masculinity. The first one — whence comes the word — is from Rorate Caeli, … Continue reading
Maronite Patriarch Rai Consecrates Lebanon to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Harissa (News.va) – The Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites Boutros Bechara Rai consecrated Lebanon and the entire Middle East to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, praying that all the peoples of the region are freed “from the sins that … Continue reading
Is It Safe to Mention This, Since the Holy Father Has?
Michael Voris’ special episode on “Pope Francis and the ‘gays’ in the Vatican.” Maybe what the Argentine Pope will do is institute a Clean War to purge the moral filth out of the Church. Saint Peter Damian, pray for him. … Continue reading
N Korea May Have 10,000 Catholics Clinging to Their Faith
Vatican Insider: “We suspect that after the long period of persecution there are still about 10,000 people who will remember in their hearts their Catholic faith.” But “I find it difficult to believe that there is an organised underground Church … Continue reading