APNews: The whimpers from skeletally thin babies too weak to cry are a harbinger of worse things to come: A quarter of the children lucky enough to make it to this emergency feeding center are dying. They are the latest victims … Continue reading
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‘Volunteers’ for Pope’s Pizza Fest Were Not Unaffiliated; They Were From Pro-Abortion UNICEF
Do not doubt for a minute that the abortion-funding UNICEF infiltrated this event, unbeknownst to Pope Francis, to make themselves look beneficent. People Food: Pope Francis celebrated the canonization of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun on Sunday by inviting 1,500 homeless people … Continue reading
Desecrations by the Thousands by Moslems in Catholic Churches in Europe in Past Three Years
Rorate Caeli: There have also been recent cases (mainly reported in local newspapers but occasionally even in national newspapers) of Muslims going into churches, shouting, cursing and smashing sacred objects. However this alarm is not limited only to Italy. Read more … Continue reading
Québec City: From the Living Catholic Quarter to a Dead Wasteland
First Things, George Weigel: QUÉBEC CITY. The exit signs along Autoroute 40 between the quondam capital of New France and Montréal are a veritable Litany of the Saints: Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Saint-Nicolas, Saint-Basile-Sud, Sainte-Catherine-de-la-Jacques-Cartier, Notre-Dame-de-Portneuf, Saint-Marc-des-Carrières, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets, Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan, Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes, Saint Maurice, … Continue reading
Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) RIP
The Remnant, Michael Matt: This just in from Fox News: Phyllis Schlafly, the iconic pro-family activist who rose to fame in the 1970s when she campaigned against the Equal Rights Amendment, has died at age 92, according to the Eagle Forum, … Continue reading
Catholic Psychiatrist Strongly Warns Against Vatican’s New Sex Ed Program
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: On 2 September, LifeSiteNews published a trenchant critique of the new Vatican Sexual Education Program. The author of this critique, Dr. Rick Fitzgibbons, the director of the Institute for Marital Healing outside Philadelphia, strongly opposes this new program which … Continue reading
Teilhardian (Still Out There?) Evolution Jibberish From Preacher of Papal Household
During Vespers on the “World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation,” Father Raniero Cantalamessa, the aged Modernist who has been “Preacher of the Papal Household” for the past 36 years, uttered this gibberish during his so-called homily: Read … Continue reading
Ten Truths That We Should Know About Purgatory
Note especially number 9 EpicPew, Shaun McAfee: We can all learn bit more about purgatory. Far from being the much-maligned second-chance hell or hell-lite that critics make it out to be, purgatory actually well reflects the beauty of the Church’s teaching. Here … Continue reading
Coming Persecution: May the English Martyrs Be Our Inspiration
National Catholic Register, Stephanie Mann: Monsignor Charles Pope warned recently: It is time to prepare for persecutions that will get bolder by the month and year. The dark movements that marched in under the banners of tolerance never meant it. … Continue reading
Was the Last Apostle to Die Martyred?
ChurchPop: Of the 12 Apostles appointed by Jesus, 10 of them died as martyrs. Judas, the traitor,took his own life. But the last Apostle to die, John, met a very different fate. Living nearly to the very end of the 1st century, he died … Continue reading
Sole Missionary of Charity Sister Who Survived Yemen Massacre Tells Her Story to Crowd at St. Peters
CNA: A year before a March 4 attack killed four sisters, the Missionaries of Charity opted not to leave, but to remain with their patients in the war-torn country of Yemen, the sole survivor said on Saturday. “In the midst of … Continue reading
Jesuit Georgetown Appoints Hindu Chaplain
Catholic Culture: Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic institution in the US, has become the first American college to engage a Hindu priest as a campus chaplain. More here.
Cardinal Cañizares: ‘They Will Not Force Me to Be Silent . . . Even If They Crucify Me’
Maike Hickson, 1Peter5: In the midst of so many discouraging and troubling pieces of news, it is always important to point out manifestations of virtue and of the good that still abides. One of the great defenders of Catholic Truth right … Continue reading
Cardinal Brandmüller in Defense of Priestly Celibacy
The Wanderer, Maike Hickson: As reported on 31 August on OnePeterFive, the German lay organization Zentralkomittee der deutschen Katholiken (ZdK – Central Committee of German Catholics) has now proposed to slacken the demands for priestly celibacy in light of the decreasing … Continue reading
A Catholic Artist and His Making of a Statue of Saint Thérèse
Maike Hickson, 1Peter 5: This summer, our little family has been blessed by the generosity of neighbors who also happen to be fellow Catholics. Both of these neighbors – a husband and a wife – are gifted artists. H. Reed Armstrong … Continue reading
