AsiaNews, Bernardo Cervellera: The new regulations on religious activities are aimed at annihilating underground communities and stifling official communities, making it impossible for any outward mission. Report is here.
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Jimmy Akin Says Protestants Are Not Heretics
Akin distinguishes, as Vatican II does (Unitatis Redintegratio), between the original heretics and those born into Protestant sects. Fine. I distinguish: No one is born a heretic. If they have been validly baptized as babies, they are baptized Catholic. There … Continue reading
NY Planned Parenthood Wants Statue of Racist Removed But Not That of Their Racist Founder in Smithsonian
LifeNews, Micaiah Bilger: : Planned Parenthood just loves to shout about the evils of racism. Perhaps, it’s because the abortion chain’s leaders think they will be able to cover up their own racist roots if they shout loud and long … Continue reading
The POWER of Christ’s Baptism, Saint Porphyrius
Today is the feast day of Saint Porphyrius. He was an actor or “comedian” in Rome when Emperor Julian the Apostate ruled (361-363). Julian had reinstituted persecution against the Christians. The amazing fact about Porphyrius is that he was converted while … Continue reading
Magnificent Promises From Our Lady For Those Who Promote Her Seven Sorrows
National Catholic Register, Edward Pronechen: As Our Lady of Sorrows, our Blessed Mother granted several promises for those who would honor her under this title, and Jesus also added four more for this devotion, and Our Lady appeared in Fatima … Continue reading
Cardinal Mueller, Presents Book on Papacy, Says Power Has Replaced Doctrine
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: Gloria von Thurn und Taxis, a prominent Catholic German princess who is very supportive of orthodox Catholic causes in Germany, has just last Friday welcomed Cardinal Gerhard Müller – the former Prefect of the Congregation for the … Continue reading
After 18 Months Kidnapped Indian Priest Freed
Catholic Herald: Kidnapped Indian priest Fr Tom Uzhunnalil has been freed from captivity and flown to Oman, the country’s government has said. Story here.
Bizarre: Clinton Honeymoon in Haiti and the Voodoo Affair
Spirit Daily: Whether tongue in cheek or only partly so, in her new book, Hillary Clinton says that the private-server scandal during the election was so frustrating “that she was ‘tempted’ to construct voodoo dolls in the images of ‘certain members’ … Continue reading
Diane Feinstein to Catholic Judge Nominee: ‘The Dogma Lives Loudly Within You’
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler: Because some senators didn’t like [Amy] Barrett’s religious views. “The dogma lives loudly within you,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein. Feinstein evidently meant for that sentence to sound sinister. I can only say that I wish people would … Continue reading
Ostpolitik: ‘Ecclesiastical Treason’ and the Current Dailogue With Communist China
Fatima Perspectives, Chris Ferrara: One of the keynotes of Father Gruner’s assessment of the crisis in the Church from the Fatima perspective was his exposure and condemnation of the disastrous post-Vatican II policy of Ostpolitik (the politics of the East), according to … Continue reading
Cardinal Caffarra Confirmed Dubia Cardinals Are Under Surveillance
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: Today, 12 September, the Spanish-speaking Catholic website Infovaticana published an important report about Cardinal Carlo Caffarra. It is of such worthiness that Giuseppe Nardi, the Vatican specialist of the German website Katholisches.info, has already reported on this story, which affirms that … Continue reading
9/11: The Heroes of Flight 93
The American Catholic, Donald R. McClarey: Passenger Thomas Burnett, Jr. called his wife and she told him about the other planes that had hit the Twin Towers. He called her back after their first conversation and told her: “We’re going to … Continue reading
As Cardinal Pacelli, Pius XII’s Warning Against Partisans of Novelties Bent On ‘Modification’ of Faith and Liturgy
Tradition in Action: In 1933 when Card. Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pius XII, was Secretary of State of Pope Pius XI, he met his friend Count Enrico Galeazzi, who became one of his close assistants. Read text here.
Dossier Published By Vatican Publishing House Lists All Bishops in China, Licit and Illicit
L’Espresso, Sandro Magister: Francis is the first pope to have flown over China. But whether he will set foot there remains to be seen. In August Libreria Editrice Vaticana has made public a dossier that is a brutal cold shower for those … Continue reading
The Priest Who Was Ordered To Find the Real Private Ryan
Aleteia: Among those soldiers who landed behind German lines in Normandy on June 6, 1944 was the legendary chaplain of the unit, Fr. Francis L. Sampson (1912-1996). It was he (and not the character played by Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan), … Continue reading
