AsiaNews: The Hong Kong Justice and Peace Commission has launched a campaign to get Chinese authorities to free Mgr Augustine Cui Tai, coadjutor bishop of Xuanhua (Hebei). The prelate disappeared in the hands of the police in mid-April 2018 and, since … Continue reading
The Remnant, Susan Claire Potts: When I was a little girl, ten years before I became a Catholic, I had enough Christian sense to know that a person was supposed to go to church on Sunday. My parents weren’t that interested…they … Continue reading
Fatima Perspectives, Chris Ferrara: The late Joe Sobran, writing back in 2010, coined the term “Darwiniac” to describe the fanatical ideologues who promote Darwinian and Neo-Darwinian evolutionism in the public schools and who succeeded in persuading a federal judge that … Continue reading
The blasphemy was drawn by a cartoonist named Tom Halliday. The Sunday Irish Independent is controlled by Ireland’s richest native born citizen, Denis O’Brien. He, the most powerful media man in Ireland, is worth about seven billion. He is a … Continue reading
Catholic Herald, Dave Armstrong: We are required to believe in Mary’s perpetual virginity, meaning that she was always a virgin and had no other children, and that Jesus’ birth was a miraculous one, not in any particular hypothesis accounting for … Continue reading
Was Father Alfred Kunz (+1998) a victim of these organized predators? Catholic Culture: Matt Abbott reminds readers on the Renew America site that in his book Furthermore! Memories of a Parish Priest–published in 1999, well before the sex-abuse scandal reached its peak—the late … Continue reading
This figure is from exit polls, see here. Just look at the photos of cheering young apostates. We can only conclude that a principal reason for the defection of the young is their cynicism of a corrupted clergy and the … Continue reading
This post was issued before the appalling result became known of Ireland’s landslide vote in favor of the murder of babies. Spirit Daily (from the Apostolate of Our Lady of Good Success): All hell has seemed to be unleashed on … Continue reading
ChurchPop: FOCUS missionary Ethan Stueve recently tweeted about an amazing story: in the 1970s there used to be a humanities program at the University of Kansas that got shut down because too many of its students were converting to Catholicism. Account is here.
Aleteia, Larry Peterson: Maria Cecilia Autsch was born in Rollecken, Germany, on March 26, 1900. She was the fifth of seven children and her dad, August, worked very hard as a machinist to keep his family fed. He and his … Continue reading
Vatican Insider, Andrea Tornielli: “It may be on the lips of many, but that equation is a foolish lie.” This is how Pope Francis defined the equation that many make between Muslims and terrorists. He did so in the extensive interview … Continue reading
ChurchPop: A few days ago, a four-alarm blaze engulfed the chapel at Mary Help of Christians Academy in North Haledon, NJ, an all-girls high school run by the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco. The fire alarm went off at 1:29am on May 18th, and … Continue reading
LifeSite News, Claire Chretien: The student who was threatened with rape for articulating Catholic teaching on marriage at Providence College graduated this weekend, and was then banned from campus and served a restraining order. This happened after he reported to the school … Continue reading
ChurchPop: Famous opera singer Andrea Bocelli recently performed at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fatima, Portugal, as part of an on-going celebration of the 100th anniversary of the apparitions there. See here.
Our Lady Help of Christians, May 24, Patroness of China Vatican News, Linda Bordoni: Pope Francis has appealed to all Christians to be spiritually close to Catholics who live in China, and to pray they may live their faith in full communion with the … Continue reading
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