That’s 600,000 Israeli citizens living in over 130 settlements on confiscated Palestinian land. Palestinians for decades now have been terrorized out of their homes or had them bulldozed. There are about 6.5 million Palestinian refugees scattered about the world, but most of … Continue reading
California Catholic Daily: Those who persist in denying that the Church is engaged in a culture war, the combatants in which are aptly called the “culture of life” and the “culture of death,” might ponder this June blog post by my … Continue reading
Tradition In Action, Allan W. Royce: In The Lost Mandate of Heaven, Dr. Geoffrey Shaw tells the tragic story of the life and death of Ngo Dinh Diem, president of South Vietnam. It is a history somewhat reminiscent of the life and … Continue reading
Catholic Herald: Two elite private Jesuit schools in Australia have cautiously endorsed same-sex marriage, citing the teaching of Pope Francis. In a message to parents, staff and students, St Ignatius’s College in Sydney and Xavier College in Melbourne, while not explicitly … Continue reading
Rorate Caeli: We ask readers to pray for the repose of the soul of “Peter,” who drowned on his way to the traditional Latin Mass near Houston, Texas. He was driving to Queen of Angels church, run by the Society of Saint Pius … Continue reading
CNA: Missing for more than 1,500 years, the earliest known Latin commentary on the Gospels has been rediscovered at the Cologne Cathedral Library and was published in English this week. More on this here.
Catholic Culture: Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet, who sponsored a bid to allow legal abortion, will be one of the speakers at a November conference organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. More here.
In relation to the title above, Archbishop Lefebvre had gone to Cardinal Wright to gain his support in opposing a heretical catechism promoted by the Canadian Bishops’ Conference. Cardinal Wright, at the time, or perhaps shortly thereafter (the event related … Continue reading
Aleteia, Philip Kosloski: Katharine Drexel was a pioneer in many ways. After seeing the plight of the Native Americans, she founded a religious order that she hoped could help relieve the suffering of the poor and vulnerable minorities of the country. … Continue reading
Lee is Oriental, his name being a common Chinese or Korean surname. So, he wasn’t named after General Robert E. Lee. And, even if he was, the southern general was a noble man, not without serious flaws, but hardly one … Continue reading
The Stream, Todd Starnes: A first grader at a California charter school was sent to the principal’s office this week after she accidentally “mis-gendered” a transgender classmate in what’s being called a “pronoun mishap.” More here.
Let’s be clear. Sister Maureen McInerny, the School’s Board of directors, and its head, Cecily Stock, did not remove Our Lady, rather Our Lady left them. The school is 80% non-Catholic. A statue of Mary and the Baby Jesus in … Continue reading
The Remnant, Theresa Moreau: One bridge connects the two territories. A few meters of barbed wire separate two worlds and two civilizations. The physical distance can be measured in a few meters. The moral distance, however, cannot be measured. On one … Continue reading
One Billion Stories, Seth DeMoor: It was 1949, in Denver Colorado, during the Polio epidemic when Mary Jane was stricken with bulbar polio, at that time a deadly disease. She was placed in a large machine called an “iron lung” … Continue reading
AsiaNews, Sergio Ticozzi: The pressure and violence of the civil authorities control and suffocate the official Church. Underground Catholics wonder whether the Holy See has married the government’s thesis, to eliminate them. The “unrealistic” hope in an agreement between China and … Continue reading
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