The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release, dated last night (January 20, 2025)… LEAGUE HAILS TRUMP WITHDRAWAL FROM PRO-ABORTION WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION At 8:25 this evening, less than nine hours after his inauguration, President Donald J. … Continue reading
We can cut him a break. He’s not a grammarian. Gender is a linguistic construction; sex is biological. The latter is absolutely binary, the former is not (Latin and Greek have neuter genders!) This is good news. WASHINGTON, D.C., (LifeSiteNews) … Continue reading
VATICAN CITY (Dorothy Cummings McLean/LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis met with Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, this morning. It was unexpectedly reported today that the Pontiff had just received the tradition-loving Bishop Schneider in a “private audience.” … Continue reading
ROME (Nicole Winfield/AP) — Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican investigation. The probe uncovered sexual abuses by its founder, financial mismanagement … Continue reading
(Vatican News) — In the hours following the annoucement of a ceasefire in Gaza, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, expresses his cautious optimism, touching on the fragile hope for the future and the urgent humanitarian priorities needed … Continue reading
(Aid to the Church in Need) — The number of priests and religious kidnapped increased in 2024, while the number arrested for reasons of persecution diminished. In total, ACN registered 122 cases impacting priests and religious, including 13 murders, 38 … Continue reading
Here are a few news stories on the Gaza ceasefire, followed by the “Declaration of the Catholic Ordinaries on the Ceasefire in Gaza”: Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire deal in Gaza, includes hostage release (CNA) Israel launches killing spree … Continue reading
According to Open Doors International, “More than 380 [million] Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.” Further, one in seven are persecuted worldwide, while one in five suffer persecution in Africa and two in five in … Continue reading
(Tyler Arnold/CNA) — President-elect Donald Trump’s presumptive nominee to serve as attorney general, Pam Bondi, at her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday vowed to stop government “weaponization” against Catholics, pro-life activists, and concerned parents. During her Jan. 15 hearing in … Continue reading
(Maike Hickson/LifeSiteNews) — In a homily delivered yesterday at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, during the English Speaking Clergy’s International Conference (Jan 13-17), Gerhard Cardinal Müller addressed the crisis in the contemporary priesthood. He stated that there … Continue reading
(Jacqueline Burkepile/National Catholic Register, via ChurchPOP) — Deadly wildfires have raged the Los Angeles area within the last week, leaving countless people without a home. As of this writing, the fires ravaged 40,000 acres, destroyed entire communities, and burned more than … Continue reading
(Phil Lawler/Catholic World News) — This week, with the publication of his new book, Pope Francis has added one important link to the chain of evidence regarding the fight against Vatican corruption. In April 2012, Pope Benedict created a special commission … Continue reading
CNA published an article by Almudena Martínez-Bordiú on recent change to Vatican law that impose stronger penalties for those who enter the sovereign state illegally. Some may find the new strictures noteworthy in light of the fact that the Vatican, … Continue reading
(Christopher Wells/Vatican News) — Cuba has announced that it will release from prison 553 people “convicted of various crimes.” The decision was communicated to Pope Francis earlier this month in a letter from Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel, who indicated that the … Continue reading
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — A group of about 2,500 Catholic doctors and health care providers sued the Biden administration on Friday for attempting to force emergency room physicians to kill innocent life through abortion in certain circumstances after the overturn of Roe v. … Continue reading
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