Servizio Informatione Religiosa, Daniele Rocchi: A beheaded statue of Mary, a painting of Christ thrown to the ground and crushed, sacred images used for target shooting, desecrated and ravaged cemeteries, graves and tombstones; shrines, monasteries, churches, homes and shops set ablaze. … Continue reading
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: Today, on 6 March 2017, the German Bishops’ Conference began its own spring General Assembly in Bensberg (Bergisch Gladbach), Germany. Sixty-six German bishops are now coming together for four days in order to discuss such themes as … Continue reading
South Sudan is heavily Catholic, 37 percent. Agenzia Fides: Half of the expected number of refugees from South Sudan have already arrived in Sudan in the first two months of the year. The statement comes from the Office of the United … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: The Maronite Catholic Archbishop of Damascus has described an “apocalyptic scene” in Syria, in a grim Lenten message. Syria is “a huge disaster zone of debris,” writes Archbishop Samir Nassar. More here with link to news.
Our website has a couple of good articles on Saint Leo the Great. I wrote one here. It includes part of the Tome he wrote for the Council of Chalcedon, to which Dr. Marshall refers. Another article is here from … Continue reading
Fatima Network, Christopher Ferrara: Someday soon, I promise, this column will address good news in the Catholic Church, as it has in the past. The interim problem, however, is that the torrent of epochal bad news emanating from the Bergoglian … Continue reading
AsiaNews: People in Gaza “live day by day” in a situation that “is becoming more desperate”. Many residents, including Christians, have been forced “to borrow” to buy some food and electricity,” this according to Fr Mario da Silva, a Brazilian who … Continue reading
National Catholic Register, Tod Worner: “Why should I have to go to Confession?” I was being testy. And my wife knew it. The rest is here.
Total Croatia News, Vedran Pavlic: The Catholic Bishop of Mostar-Duvno Ratko Perić issued a statement on Monday in which he claimed that Virgin Mary had never appeared in Međugorje, adding that alleged apparitions were more a form of manipulation from visionaries … Continue reading
I was not at all familiar with this contentious controversy of the Greek schismatics with Rome over the eighth ecumenical council. Sister Maria Philomena, director of the Saint Augustine Institute here at SBC, has filled me in on the issue … Continue reading
California Catholic Daily: California State Sen. Janet Nguyen (R-Garden Grove), was forcibly removed from the Senate Thursday morning for offering a different perspective on the late Sen. Tom Hayden, a Democrat with a well-known and lengthy history of communist sympathies. The … Continue reading
The Remnant, Father Ladis J. Cizik: Saint Padre Pio was the first stigmatized Priest in the Church, sent from God to be a sign for our times. Francesco Forgione (born 1887) received the five wounds of Christ only after ordination (1910) when … Continue reading
Clinging to Onions: “The days in which we live now require heroic Catholicism, not casual Catholicism,” declared Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky in 2012. “We can no longer be Catholics by accident, but instead be Catholics by conviction.” This is especially … Continue reading
Aleteia, Meg Hunter-Kilmer: The history of the Church in China is a long and complicated one, with mission after mission that lasted only a time before being driven out by persecution. In the 19th century, St. John Bosco (who influenced … Continue reading
Her grandmother, Barbara Bush, also was pro-abortion. The Texas Tribune, Abby Livingston: Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, will headline a Planned Parenthood fundraiser in North Texas on Wednesday. She will be the keynote speaker … Continue reading
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