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
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Trump Overturns Obama Bill Preventing States From Defunding Planned Parenthood
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
Sweden: Nurse Fired, Denied Employment at 3 Hospitals Because She Will Not Assist in Abortions
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
Did Jesus Ride Into Jerusalem on a Donkey, a Colt, or Did He Use Both?
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
‘Send in the Clowns’
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
Professor at Catholic University Dismissed for Calling Abortion Murder
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.
Another Religious Murdered in South America
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
China: Underground Bishop Taken From Mass for ‘Re-education’ Classes
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
Canonization of Jacinta and Francisco May Be May 13.
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.
Vatican Cardinal, Two US Prelates, Endorse Scandalous Book by Dissident Jesuit
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
George Orwell, ‘Conspicuously’ Anti-Catholic (Even Anti-Christian), Hated Contraception As Much As Capitalism
First Things, Dan Hitchens: In 1954, four years after George Orwell’s premature death from tuberculosis, his friend Christopher Hollis recalled: “One of the most interesting and deepest of Orwell’s beliefs was his belief in the profound evil of contraception.” Near … Continue reading
Canada: Ex-Ambassador Cautions Vatican on Compromising With Beijing
Catholic Culture: Andrew Bennett, Canada’s former Ambassador of Religious Freedom, said in an address to a parliamentary forum that the Holy See should have no illusions as it negotiates with China about the appointment of bishops. More here.
ISIS Massacre of Christian Coptics Worshiping on Palm Sunday
Catholic Culture; At least 44 Coptic Christians were killed on Palm Sunday, April 9, in two separate bombings. More than 30 people were killed, and 75 others injured, when a suicide bomber approached the altar of a historic Coptic church in … Continue reading
Female Moral Dissident Contributed to New Book Honoring Benedict XVI
As noted last week in our News Items, Anne-Marie Pelletier, also wrote the Good Friday meditations to be used by Pope Francis at the Colisseum on Friday. 1Peter5, Maike Hickson: On 1 April 2017, OnePeterFive reported that Pope Francis chose Professor … Continue reading
Boko Haram’s Continued Massacres Against Christians in Nigeria
In one state alone, Borno, Northern Nigeria, one and a half million people have fled from the terror and are now trying to survive in refugee camps and in bordering countries. Catholic Herald, Douglas Murray: “There is just too much to care … Continue reading
