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.
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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.
Santa Rosa Bishop Calls for Consecration to Mary of Every Parish and Mission
California Catholic Daily: In preview copy of Aug. 26 letter posted on diocese’s website, Bishop Robert Vasa asks that consecrations be performed after all Sunday Masses on Saturday, December 9 and Sunday, December 10. More here.
San Francisco Parish Has a Pastor Who Believes ‘ the Old Is Better’
Crux, Valerie Schmalz: Father Joseph Illo came to be in charge of the Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco three years ago. He has revitalized the ailing parish with his powerful commitment to traditional Catholic practices. “I was … Continue reading
Prayers: Church Offers Refuge for Thousands of Persecuted Sudanese
CNA: As the civil war in South Sudan heightens, millions are fleeing their homes for safer ground, which many have found at St. Mary Help of Christian’s Cathedral in Wau, the country’s second largest city. Report is here.
Cardinal Brandmüller on the Need for Papal Professions of Faith
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: Cardinal Walter Brandmüller – the former president of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences and one of the four dubia cardinals – has just published an article in German (in Die Neue Ordnung, August issue) in which he discusses an old ecclesiastical tradition … Continue reading
Brazil’s Bishops’ Conference Opens Door for ‘Some’ Practicing Adulterers to Receive Sacraments
Crux, Felipe Dominguez: The Brazilian Bishops’ National Conference did not close the door that leads to the sacraments for divorced and remarried couples. In a pastoral guide to Amoris Laetitia, the bishops said that, even though Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation reaffirms the … Continue reading
