Catholic Herald: Police removed a group of young Catholics from the cathedral in Brussels after they recited the rosary out loud, disrupting a service celebrating the Reformation. Report with video is here.
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Pakistan: Let Us Not Forget Asia Bibi, Over 3000 Days in Prison For Her Faith
Aleteia, Isabelle Cousturie: In June 14, 2009, Asia Bibi was thrown into jail. A year later she was sentenced to death for blasphemy, and since 2013, after two transfers, she has been languishing in one of the three windowless cells on death … Continue reading
Lay Liturgist Working on ‘Ecumenical Mass’: ‘Transubstantiation is Not a Dogma’
1Peter5, Steve Skojec: In his Monday column at First Things, Italian journalist and veteran Vatican-watcher Marco Tosatti gave voice to what had previously been little more than a whispered rumor: that a group was at work, with Vatican knowledge and support, on a … Continue reading
Cardinal Brandmüller Affirms Those Who Deny Christ’s Teaching on Marriage Are ‘Excommunicated’
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: One of the two remaining dubia cardinals, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, has just given an interview to the prominent German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) which has been published today, 28 October. In this lengthy interview, the 88-year old German prelate explains once … Continue reading
France: Court Orders Removal of Cross From Statue of John Paul II in Public Square
Canada criminalizes pro-life demonstrations, France bans the Cross. Christendom delenda est. Il Giornale.it, French Ivan: We are not in Raqqa , the capital of the Islamic State in Syria but in Brittany, in the heart of Western Europe. More here. Use translation … Continue reading
Ontario: Legislature (86-1) Outlaws Pro-Life Witness at Abortuaries
LifeSiteNews, Lianne Laurence: Ontario’s legislators passed a bill criminalizing pro-life speech and expression outside abortion clinics today by a vote of 86-1. More here.
Cardinal Mueller Rebukes Head of Italian Episcopal Conference for Claiming Reformation Was ‘Event of Holy Spirit’
LifeSite News, Matthew Cullinan Hoffman: Cardinal Gerhard Müller has rebuked the secretary-general of the Italian Episcopal Conference for claiming that the Protestant Reformation was an “event of the Holy Spirit.” Report is here.
Lakota Holy Man Nicholas Black Elk
The photo of Black Elk praying the Rosary with his daughter, Lucy Looks Twice (see below), is priceless. You have to love the Indian names, don’t you? National Catholic Register, Peter Jesserer Smith: Basil Brave Heart remembers the day his … Continue reading
Sister Lucia at Fatima: ‘Close Your Umbrellas’!
Community in Mission, Msgr. Charles Pope: On at least two different occasions, Sr. Lucia gave the following instruction to the crowd at Fatima: “Close your umbrellas. Our Lady is coming!” In the pictures of the throngs gathered on the 13th of … Continue reading
New Priory of Perpetual Adoration in Ireland Offers Itself as Reparation
CNA: Prayer, reparation, and praising God are the focus of a new Benedictine priory in Ireland, which focuses especially on reparation for the sins of priests. “It was never our predetermined plan to come to Ireland,” Silverstream Priory’s Father Benedict Andersen, … Continue reading
The Agony of Padre Pio
Infallibly Catholic (from April 19, 2012): This is a photograph of the incorruptible body of Padre Pio exhumed on March 2, 2008, 40 years after his death on September 23, 1968. His remains was shown to the public in the Shrine … Continue reading
October 21: Blessed Emperor Karl Honored at Pontifical High Mass in DC on His Feast Day
The Remnant, Olivia Rao: The annual pontifical mass in honor of the Emperor Blessed Karl of Austria took place yesterday (October 21, 2017) at Mary Mother of God Church in Washington, D.C. The event, organized by the United States branch of … Continue reading
Florida: He Put Up 1000 Pro-Life Ads and Billboards
National Catholic Register, Lori Hadacek Chaplin: In 1998, Ed Daccarett pondered why the average person, 25 years after Roe v. Wade, remained oblivious to the fact that we are in a cultural battle over life. “Why, Lord? After all of these years, all of … Continue reading
Pope Corrects Cardinal Sarah, Says Liturgy Translations Have In Fact Shifted to Bishops’ Conferences
Crux: In a rare move, Pope Francis has issued a public letter to one of his own cardinals correcting his interpretation of one of the pontiff’s decisions. In a missive dated Oct. 15, Francis tells Cardinal Robert Sarah of Guinea, head … Continue reading
Jesuit Georgetown: Pro-Family Student Group to Undergo Hearing As ‘Hate Group’
CNA: A pro-marriage student group at Georgetown University is in danger of being defunded and barred from campus facilities, after fellow students have petitioned that it be recognized as a “hate group.” More here.
