Catholic Culture: A Chinese bishop who spent months under house arrest concelebrated Easter Mass with a bishop appointed by the Beijing regime in defiance of Rome, in a show of strength for the government-backed Catholic Patriotic Association. Bishop Ma Daqin of … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: In an interview published by the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, an Egyptian Jesuit has warned that the dominant strain of Father Henri Boulad More here.
Catholic Culture: An Islamic leader in Pakistan is calling for the prompt execution of Asia Bibi, claiming that the state’s failure to punish her alleged blasphemy is the cause of the lynching of another man accused of blasphemy. More here with … Continue reading
Catholic Culure: As Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin was about to celebrate his first Paschal Triduum as bishop of Wenzhou, Chinese police took him into custody. More here with link to AsiaNews.
Teresa Mangels: “Every liturgy I’m in tears”, National Catholic Register, Nicholas Wolfram Smith: The phrase “Swimming the Tiber” has been used to describe Protestants coming into the Catholic Church. But a group of Pentecostals in Arizona are coming “home to … Continue reading
The Catholic Sun, Joyce Coronel: The man arrested for the 2014 murder of Fr. Kenneth Walker, FSSP, and the aggravated assault on Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP, will spend the rest of his life in prison. That was the decision of … Continue reading
LifeNews Steven Ertelt: President Donald Trump signed into law today a bill to overturn a rule pro-abortion President Barack Obama put in place preventing states from defunding the Planned Parenthood abortion business. The rule from the Department of Health and Human … Continue reading
LifeNews: Ellinor Grimmark is a nurse in Sweden who filed a claim that the hospital where she worked discriminated against her because she refused to participate in abortions. Newly-graduated, Grimmark was fired from her position because she refused to assist abortions. … Continue reading
Taylor Marshall: For years I was confused by Saint Matthew’s description about Palm Sunday: we read that Christ rode a female donkey and her baby colt. However, in Mark, Luke, and John, we read that Christ rode a donkey without any … Continue reading
And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them (Isaias 3:4). Catholic Culture: Cardinal Lorenzo Baldesseri, the secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, says that Pope Francis wants input from all of the world’s young … Continue reading
Feminist group protested and succeeded in causing professor’s dismissal. Catholic Culture: The Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium has dismissed a faculty member who provoked outcries by describing abortion as a form of murder. More here with link.
As of today, in 2017, four priests have been killed in Colombia, two in Mexico, one in India, one in Syria, one in Haiti, one in Italy, and one in Tanzania. Fourteen priests in all were murdered this year worldwide. See here. … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: Chinese officials have taken an ‘underground’ Catholic bishop into custody, just before he was due to celebrate the Chrism Mass for the first time in his diocese. Bishop Vincent Guo Xijn on Mindon, in the Fujian province, was taken … Continue reading
Catholic Herald: The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will preside over a consistory to approve canonisation of the Fatima visionaries, Francisco and Jacinta Marto. More here.
Along with other unnatural moral depravities promoted in his book, Father James Martin, S.J., tweeted to his 100,000 tweeter followers his opposition to the Trump administration’s rescinding of the Obama transgender bathroom order, which allows for boys (men) to use girls’ bathrooms … Continue reading
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