National Catholic Register, Interview with Trent Beattie: I like to pray the Rosary, which helps to make me aware of the people closest to me and how I can be present in their lives. Being a college athlete can easily make … Continue reading
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Cambodia: Heroic Jesuit Brother Gave Life to Protect Students from Deranged Terrorist
CNA: Just four days before he died, Riche had written a long letter to his friend and fellow Jesuit, Totet Banaynal SJ: “I know where my heart is. It is with Jesus Christ, who gave all for the poor, the sick, … Continue reading
Head of Vatican Marriage Institute Opens Door to Sacraments for Those in ‘Irregular Unions’
Fatima Perspectives, Chris Ferrara: No one, not even a Pope, can alter the constant teaching and integrally related discipline of the Church on the “intrinsic impossibility” of absolution and Holy Communion for public adulterers in “second marriages” who intend to continue … Continue reading
Nigerian Cardinal Calls for the Conversion of the Nation to Christ
I hope he is as tough as his George Foreman looks. Pray for him. Church Militant, Stephen Wynne: The Church in Nigeria is thriving. The number of Catholics is now at more than 24 million, and conversions are on the rise. Vocations … Continue reading
Pope Francis, Summorum Pontificum, the SSPX: Is There Something Amiss?
LifeSite News, John Henry Westen: Andrea Grillo a lay professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum of St Anselmo in Rome, billed by La Croix as “close to the Pope,” is intimately familiar Summorum Pontificum. Grillo in fact published a book against Summorum Pontificum before the … Continue reading
Xi Jinping: ‘Extend the Battleground Wherever the Party Points’
AsiaNews, Wang Zhicheng: In an unprecedented show of military power, Chinese President Xi Jinping has addressed his troops to say that China has “the confidence and the ability to defeat all the armies who dare to offend.” And following in the … Continue reading
The White Slave Trade in America
In the 1650’s 100,000 Irish children were sent by the English to the West Indies and Virginia as slaves. 52,000 Irish women, whose husbands had been killed by the English during the 1640s, were shipped as slaves to Barbados and … Continue reading
China: 60 Years Later and the Government’s ‘Catholic Patriotic Association’ Continues Its Oppression
AsiaNews: Although in a low key – perhaps because of talks with the Vatican – the slogan for an “autonomous” and “independent” Church (from the Holy See) is completely subjugated to Party politics. Official bishops die like “state officials” far from the … Continue reading
Some Clarifying and Illuminating Notes from Bishop Schneider on Vatican II
Fatima Perspectives, Christopher Ferrara: [Excerpt] The same process of correction must be applied to the many problematical statements in the documents of Vatican II, a Council whose ambiguous “pastoral” texts are unlike those of any other Council in the history … Continue reading
Chile: Archbishop Refuses to Take Issue With Government Legalizing Abortion
Fatima Perspectives, Christopher Ferrara; [Cardinal] Ezzati’s position, falsely separating politics from the moral law, is so blatantly a betrayal of his high office in the Church that, as CR notes, even a militantly atheist academic, Professor Carlos Peña, a professor … Continue reading
Jesuit Website Says General ‘Baptized Himself a Buddhist’
1Peter5, Steve Skojec: Thanks to a tip from a reader this morning, I headed over to the official website of the Conference of Jesuit Provincials in Latin America and the Caribbean. While there, I did some looking around. I followed the link to their … Continue reading
Little House on the Prairie, Conversion of the Ingalls Family
Church Pop, Lindsay Kuniyuki: Edith Florence Ingalls is mentioned only in passing by her nickname, Dolly, in The Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. She was only a baby in the chapter entitled “Christmas.” But that’s a thrill enough … Continue reading
Unheralded Martyrs of Pre-Colonial America, About 1000 of Them
National Catholic Register, Peter Jesserer Smith: A small group of Catholic faithful in Florida never imagined that a simple inquiry into a mysterious plot of land in Tallahassee would reinvigorate a dream shared over three centuries by the king of Spain, … Continue reading
China Buying Up World Food Supply
Catholic Online, Marshall Connolly: China is buying up the world’s food suppliers. Earlier this month, China finalized its purchase of Syngenta, a Swiss seed and pesticide firm. The acquisition cost $44 billion and is China’s single largest foreign takeover. It … Continue reading
Dem Rep of Congo: Two Priests Kidnapped, Three Other Abducted Priests Still Missing From 2012
Catholic Culture: Two Catholic priests were kidnapped in the Democratic Republic of Congo on July 17. More on this here.
