Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: America magazine is running a story about the conclave of 2013. The story—excerpted from the forthcoming The Election of Pope Francis, by Gerard O’Connell—includes a precise account of the voting on the cardinals’ first ballot. Do you have any … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Patti Armstrong: Walmart has come under fire—the fire of hell—for selling satanic products. Their online catalog has 22 pages—around 440 items—of demonic merchandise. They also carry Christian books and jewelry, so an argument for equal opportunity could … Continue reading
No, not from the original TV show way back when. But from 1994 movie “The Little Rascals”. Alfalfa was played by Bug Hall and Porky by Zak Mabry. The latter is a very serious Catholic; see his website link in … Continue reading
LifeNews, Steven Ertelt: The persecution of Christian businesses continues. Abortion activists have spent years attempting to force Christian companies like Hobby Lobby to pay for abortions and have targeted Christian pregnancy centers with laws attempting to fore them to refer … Continue reading
Crux: Letter from UK Home Office: “These examples are inconsistent with your claim that you converted to Christianity after discovering it is a ‘peaceful religion’ as opposed to Islam, which contained violence and rage,” the letter reads. In the letter … Continue reading
Crux, Elise Harris; Bishop Kay Schmalhausen of Ayaviri, Peru believes current punishments for both the crime of clerical sexual abuse (usually expulsion from the clerical state) and the cover-up are ineffective, and suggested harsher penalties including excommunication. More here.
From Bill Fall: When I was in Portugal in 2017 our group visited the church of St. Stephen in Santarem (derived from the name Saint Irene) where a more than 600-year-old bleeding Host is reserved above the high alter. Lucia … Continue reading
ChurchMilitant, Christine Niles: Franciscan University of Steubenville, suffering from a recent spate of bad press, is trying to rein in faculty by threatening disciplinary action if they give comments to media. Report is here.
Catholics make up only 15% of Bosnia’s population and these identify as Croatian. Return to Order, Plinio Maria Solimeo: The family is one of the institutions most affected by the crisis in our decadent times. Religious and moral sentiments have … Continue reading
Catholic Herald, Matthew R. Bahar: It was 1715 and a tribal people were preparing to assist in restoring Britain’s exiled Royal House of Stuart, sharpening tomahawks, covering themselves in war paint and raising sails on ships built to the highest … Continue reading
Bring Me MN the News, Adam Uren: This at a Catholic University! What kind of monsters are these diabolical students? Where did they come from? Catholic families? With parents paying for their education, no doubt. A numbers of students are … Continue reading
This is a woman who should be known throughout the Church, especially in America. She is our own Saint Maria Goretti. Return to Order, Norman Fulkerson: Monday, November 19, 2018, might have seemed like a normal day for Jamie Schmidt. … Continue reading
AsiaNews, Bernardo Cervellera: Mgr Cui Tai told AsiaNews that the “charismatic” activities of Fr Zhang Li are distorted and do not follow episcopal guidelines. His concept of “unity” is not that of the Holy See. The priest wants to see … Continue reading
Will Wright: When filling out any number of government documents or certain applications, there is usually a box to self-report religion. Inevitably, one of these boxes, in the English speaking world at least, will read “Roman Catholic.” Growing up, I … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Edward Pentin: Peter Westmore, who was present at the first mistrial last September and the later retrial in November, told EWTN’s News Nightly on March 13 that having heard “all the evidence” he wondered “how a jury … Continue reading
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