CNA reports: With this [HHS] decision, the cardinal-designate wrote, “the Obama administration has failed to show the same respect for the consciences of Catholics and others who object to treating pregnancy as a disease.”
Category: Current Issues in the Church
Bishop Jenky Joins Zubic and Warns Catholics to Fight the Secularist Powers in Illinois
Bishop Jenky: There are certainly some in our state whose commitment to [atheistic] secularism is so intense that they may well try to restrict the Church’s role only to the sacristy and sanctuary. Read more from the bishop’s Pastoral Letter … Continue reading
Bishop Zubik Blasts Obama and Sebelius For Their ‘To Hell With You’ HHS Mandate
Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans, Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh, Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, and Bishop Paul Loverde of Arlington, Virginia are among the bishops urging Catholics to oppose the Obama administration’s mandate that requires religious agencies to … Continue reading
60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll Reveals Apostasy of US Catholics
This is Michael Voris at his best. Yes, I said “apostasy” in the headline. If 65% of US Catholics agree that the world is a better place because of “religious diversity,” when they could have said that Christianity should be … Continue reading
Lapsed Catholic Hospitals
Catholic Hospitals are in worse condition than Catholic Universities, and that’s saying something. From EastSideHunky: Following the secularization of the culture in general, yet another “catholic” hospital system, Catholic Healthcare West, has decided to ecumenize its mission and philosophy and … Continue reading
530 Cloistered Convents in Italy Join Prayer Campaign for Church in China
AsiaNews: A “prayer campaign” for the Church in China, “which is at the most difficult and decisive crossroads in its recent history” is the request that the PIME father Piero Gheddo and Angelo Lazzarotto have made to 530 cloistered convents … Continue reading
New Italian PM Praises Pope Benedict and Stresses Europe’s Return to Christian Roots
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, who assumed office in November, said that the Church’s Magisterium and the Christian roots of Europe are indispensable in facing the continent’s economic crisis. More on this here.
Sursum Corda by Fr. Michael Rodriguez
Sursum Corda for a New Bishop of El Paso, Texas. By Father Michael Rodriguez…
American Catholics Using Church Courts More
U.S. Catholics are more and more frequenting canonical courts for redress. So says TheTelegraph.com. The church has always had a court system, and for centuries canon law and civil law so closely paralleled that one could take degrees in both … Continue reading
AsiaNews Chooses Two Missing Chinese Underground Bishops As Collective ‘Man of the Year’
At AsiaNews, we want to go against convention and pick someone who has never been cited by the media, someone who has never had any public recognition, someone who has been forgotten despite years of struggle for the truth, dignity … Continue reading
Fr. Thomas Keating on NPR: Heresy as Mysticism
Saturday, December 24. I went to Keene, N.H. to run errands. On the way, I said a chaplet of the Rosary. While carrying out my errands and on the trip back, I clicked on the local NPR affiliate to see … Continue reading
Considering Capital Punishment
Writing for Crisis Magazine, Christopher A. Ferrara asks the question “Can the Church Ban Capital Punishment?” He replies in the negative for very weighty reasons. In brief, the entire tradition of the Church advanced and defended the right of the … Continue reading
Martin Luther: ‘A True Heretic’
The words are not mine, but the Pope’s. In his bull condemning the errors of Martin Luther, Exurge Domine, Pope Leo X described his subject as “one whose faith is notoriously suspect and in fact a true heretic.” Yet Catholics … Continue reading
China’s Cardinal Zen Upset With Papally-Approved New Bishop
AsiaNews: The day after the Episcopal ordination in Yibin of Mgr Peter Luo Xuegang (pictured right, with Mgr Chen, ordinary bishop of the diocese), which saw the attendance of excommunicated Bishop Paul Lei Shiyin of Leshan, who came wilfully disregarding … Continue reading