Ignitum Today, Michael Goo: As a typical Singaporean Chinese, I was raised with a mixture of Buddhism and Taoism. I came to know and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ when I was very young and studying in the Canossian School for … Continue reading
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Professor Seifert On the Persecution of Defenders of Moral Orthodoxy
First Things, Professor Josef Seifert: If one considers the transformation of Plato’s Academy, champion of eternal truth, into a center of radical skepticism against which St. Augustine wrote his Contra Academicos, or contemplates the splits and changes that have occurred in all … Continue reading
Drop the Movie Reviews, Your Excellency
And, no, God does not “love mother nature” as you put it in your review. He loves mankind. All of non-rational creation was made for man, to serve man, to lead man to know the wisdom, goodness, and beauty of … Continue reading
Mutilation and Birth Control Device: Bayer Selling It in US Legally
CNA: German pharmaceutical company Bayer announced recently that it has suspended from all non-US sales the Essure coil, a controversial form of birth control which has received the strictest possible FDA warning for its side effects, which include chronic pain, bleeding, … Continue reading
Mexico: Gunmen Shot, Beat, Rape Catholic Youth Workers Aiding Earthquake Victims
California Catholic Daily: Members of a Catholic youth group were reportedly beaten, raped and shot while they were bringing aid to earthquake victims in south Mexico. Story here.
Jesuit: Pro Homosexual ‘Marriage’ Priest Allowed to Speak in Orange CA Diocese Event
California Catholic Daily: A group of California Catholics has questioned their diocese’s plan to host a dissident priest to keynote a lay ministry event. Jesuit Father Greg Boyle is scheduled for a presentation on October 14 at the Diocese of Orange Institute for … Continue reading
Innsbruck: New Bishop Favors Ordaining Women Deacons, Maybe Priests Later
Catholic Herald: The new Bishop of Innsbruck, Hermann Glettler, has said he supports the ordination of women to the diaconate, and is open to giving Communion to the divorced and remarried. More here.
Pontifical Academy for Life Eviscerated
Fatima Network Perspectives, Christopher Ferrara: Not that anyone should be surprised, but the appointment of the pro-“gay,” pro-Holy Communion for public adulterers Archbishop Vincenzio (“obscene mural”) Paglia as head of the reconstituted Pontifical Academy for Life has had the desired result. … Continue reading
Medjugorje: The Bizarre and the Heretical
Catholic Herald, Michael Davis: The Medjugorje movement is very much in tune with the Second Vatican Council. Devotees are prone to uplifting guitar music borrowed from charismatic Protestant revivals. They go in for those warped, El Greco-style crucifixes. They photoshop … Continue reading
Chinese Archbishop Removed From Vatican Congregation, Appointed Ambassador to Greece
I have misgivings about the displacement of Msgr. Hon from the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples to a diplomatic position for which he has no experience. He was a voice in Rome for the underground Church in China and … Continue reading
Rowing the Ocean From Miami to New York for Our Lady of Fatima
South Strand News, Tommy Howard: Kentucky resident Greg Dougherty is on his way to New York – by way of Miami. He’s not flying, driving, taking a bus or train. He’s rowing his boat – a skiff – the entire … Continue reading
Cardinal Mueller Says Curia Workers Have ‘Fear’ of Spies Acting Like ‘Children’
Catholic Herald: There is a climate of fear in the Curia as people worry “spies” will bad-mouth them to the Pope, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has said. In an extensive interview with National Catholic Register, … Continue reading
Poland: Oct 7, Bishops Call Faithful to Go to Nation’s Borders for Rosary of Reparation
Fatima Network News, Nelson Hertel: Polonia semper fidelis, “Poland (is) always faithful” is one of the mottoes of the Polish nation, dating back to 1658 when Pope Alexander VII declared the city of Lwów (Lviv) to be so, after the inhabitants’ … Continue reading
Churches Desecrated in Holy Land
Catholic Herald: Wadie Abunassar, adviser to the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land, said there have been some 80 incidents of vandalism against churches and Christians sites over the last decade. In most of the cases, no arrests or … Continue reading
While Millionaire NFL Players Protest ‘Whatever’, All of Puerto Rico Suffers Devastation
The Atlantic, Alan Taylor: Five days after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, its devastating impact is becoming clearer. Most of the U.S. territory currently has no electricity or running water, fewer than 250 of the island’s 1,600 cellphone … Continue reading
