Catholic World Report: Black Catholic communities have been a part of the Church in the Washington, DC area for centuries. But it wasn’t until the height of the Civil War that black Catholics in DC began the process of founding … Continue reading
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Anglo Catholicism Today
The Imaginative Conservative, Charles Coulombe: On November 4, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI issued an Apostolic Constitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus, in response to “groups of Anglicans” who had petitioned “repeatedly and insistently to be received into full Catholic communion individually as well as … Continue reading
Saint Bernard’s 12 Steps to the Slavery of Habitual Pride
Community in Mission, Msgr Pope: So you think the idea of the “Twelve Steps” is new? Well, if you think you’ve got a new idea, go back and see how the Greeks put it, or in this case how the Medieval … Continue reading
The Catholic in Alfred Hitchcock
National Catholic Register, K.V. Turley: Alfred Hitchcock died 40 years ago on April 29, 1980. It is also 100 years since he started working in the film industry in 1920. Hitchcock’s career and life had began in the reign of … Continue reading
Payback: Gov of Oklahoma Bans State Funding of Trips to Pro-Abortion California
Lifesite News, Governor Kevin Stitt: “California and its elected officials over the past few years have banned travel to the State of Oklahoma in an effort to politically threaten and intimidate Oklahomans for their personal values,” Stitt declared in a … Continue reading
RIP Kobe Bryant and Daughter: They Died a Few Hours after Attending Mass
And he named his daughter Gianna. I suspect for Saint Gianna Molla. They had just been to Mass and Communion before the fatal helicopter accident. NYPost: Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, went to church just hours before dying … Continue reading
China: Confined in Solitary for 13 Years, Bishop Given Temporary 3 Week Reprieve
ChurcMilitant, Bradley Eli: A Catholic bishop jailed by China’s Communist officials for 13 years is being given a few weeks of freedom before being sent back to solitary confinement. Communist authorities are temporarily freeing Bp. Agostino Cui Tai, ordinary of the diocese of Xuanhua … Continue reading
Meditation: ‘And I Knew Him Not’
Msgr. Pope: In Sunday’s Gospel (John 1:29ff), John the Baptist speaks of Jesus, calling Him superior, pre-existent, and anointed by the Holy Spirit. What also stands out is that John twice says, “I did not know Him.” This seems odd … Continue reading
44 Faculty at ‘Catholic’ College Protest Screening of Pro-Life Film
“[Kings College] does not have any official position on abortion” says Principal David Malloy. LifeSiteNews, Anthony Murdoch: Forty-four faculty members from a Catholic university in Canada have demanded the school apologize for allowing campus ministry to show the wildly successful … Continue reading
11 Martyrs of Nowogrodek Poland
Father Z’s blog: I am moved to post this. It is as if I was dragged for some reason back to my keyboard tonight, after having tried to turn in. A couple of clicks – you know how one thing … Continue reading
Cardinal Zen Appeals to Fellow Cardinals
California Catholic Daily: In his letter dated Sept. 27, 2019, the cardinal focused on a June 2019 church document, “Pastoral guidelines of the Holy See concerning the civil registration of clergy in China” which he said risks creating a schismatic … Continue reading
Impunity? . . . For the Moment. There Are Plenty of Milestones
ChurchMiliant, David Nussman: An Austrian cardinal is standing by his decision to allow a drag queen to sing inside the cathedral at a large fundraising event. Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna is defending the blasphemous fundraiser concert, which he allowed to take place … Continue reading
Russia: Empty Churches Even for Christmas
AsiaNews, Vladimir Rozanskij: During the Christmas liturgies, Church attendance fluctuates between 1 and 3%. This is the lowest figure found in all Christian countries, including secularized France. The government praises the results of Moscow’s “Journey into Christmas”, but some emphasize … Continue reading
Nigeria: Moslem Terrorists Kill 13 Christians Kidnap 4 Seminarians
Morning Star News, Armed Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 13 Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria on Wednesday (Jan. 8), the same day four students were kidnapped from a Catholic seminary in Kaduna state. Report is here.
China and Rome: The Sham of Compromise and the Shame
The Catholic Thing, Robert Royal: China is a large, strange, complex, contradictory thing, even before you get to the large, strange, complex, contradictory, and murderous form of Communism that has come to dominate its various peoples. No one understands it … Continue reading
