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.
Category: News
More Scandal: Pro-Abortion Politicians to Speak at Vatican ‘Health’ Conference
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.
Cardinal Wright to Archbishop Lefebvre: ‘How Can I Oppose Myself to a Bishops’ Conference?’
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
St. Katherine Drexel: A Life Devoted to the Salvation and Education of Negroes and Indians
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
Enervated and Sensitive Programming Network Nixes Robert Lee From Covering UV Football Game
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
Child Abuse: First-Grader Called to Principal’s Office for ‘Mis-Gendering’
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.
San Francisco: ‘Catholic’ School Decides Not to Be Catholic But Inclusive
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
China’s Doorman Father Poletti and the Formidable Bishop Ferroni
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
Pronounced Dead at 16, August 15, She Had Been in an Iron Lung: Miracle of a Woman and the Rosary
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
China: Faithful Underground Catholics Persecuted and Abandoned
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
Pat Buchanan: ‘What Still Unites Us’?
Patrick J. Buchanan Blog: Decades ago, a debate over what kind of nation America is roiled the conservative movement. Neocons claimed America was an “ideological nation” a “creedal nation,” dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.” Expropriating the … Continue reading
Ireland: ‘Humanist’ Teacher Assaults Caretaker Preventing Him From Removing Marian Statue at Catholic School
And this happened in Catholic Ireland! What audacity! The poor man had unease and anxiety and was offended by the statue. Then what, pray tell, was he doing teaching in a Catholic school? God bless the caretaker who had the … Continue reading
Must Read: ‘The Roots of Violence Is the Hatred of the Truth’
This is a must-read article by Maike Hickson. It is timely, provocative, evocative, sobering, and salutary for a serious soldier in the Church Militant. 1Peter5, Maike Hickson: While reflecting on how to write with integrity this article on the current neo-Hegelian … Continue reading
Kenya: Jihadists Kill Four Christians for Refusing to Convert to Islam
Catholic Culture: Members of the jihadist group Al-Shabaab hacked three Kenyan Christians to death after they refused to heed a demand to convert to Islam, according to World Watch Monitor, which reports on the persecution of Christians. More here with link.
Little Paul: ‘Angel of the Tribes’
Tradition in Action, Hugh O’Reilly: This is one of the extraordinary episodes recorded by Fr. Peter DeSmet at the first mission of the Flatheads Indians in St. Mary’s Mission in Bitter Root Valley, Montana. Story is here.
