Catholic Online: Three-month-old Caitlin Dooley suffered from a life-threatening heart condition since the day she was born. Just when the Dooley family began to lose hope, St. Padre Pio stepped in. More here.
Category: News
Pilgrimage To a Pennsylvania Ghost Town
National Catholic Register, Edward Pronechen: Imagine a once-thriving town with seven churches, businesses, schools, and working families — now with less than 10 residents. Imagine all but a handful of those homes and building once alive but now mostly razed. Imagine … Continue reading
Mexico’s President Pushing Same-Sex ‘Marriage’, ‘Stabs [Church] in the Back’
LifeSiteNews: The recent initiative of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to impose homosexual “marriage” on the country has led to the greatest confrontation between the government and the Catholic Church since the 1920s and 1930s, warned a spokesman for the Archdiocese … Continue reading
Fr. Z: ‘If You Want Peace Prepare for War’
Sometimes Leon Trotsky is given credit for saying that you might not be interested in war but war is interested in you. He didn’t say that, exactly, but it is nevertheless true. I have not infrequently challenged you readers to … Continue reading
Good News From the Diocese of Lincoln NE, Interview With Bishop Conley
The Catholic World Report, Jim Graves: Bishop James Conley is the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska. The Midwestern diocese is home to 96,000 Catholics who attend 134 parishes and missions. The bishop grew up in Overland Park, Kansas, … Continue reading
Terrible Earthquake in Central Italy, 267 Killed, Epicenter Near Norcia
Catholic Culture: The powerful earthquake that ripped through Italy, leaving more than 120 people dead (latest count 267), had its epicenter near Norcia, the home of St. Benedict, and drove monks there to seek temporary safety in Rome. The Benedictine community … Continue reading
Explicit Vatican Sex Ed Program for Catholic High Schools, Coed Classes
This is such a betrayal, no words can lessen the outrageous affront to innocence and parental authority. Catholic Culture: In a study released today, the Cardinal Newman Society reported significant flaws in the high school sex education program made available during World Youth Day … Continue reading
Interview With Underground Bishop on Vatican Dialogue With Beijing
Vatican Insider, Gianni Valenti: A “Chinese Bishops’ Conference in communion with the Pope” is “what we hope to see and that for which we have been praying for a long time”: the viewpoint of Joseph Wei Jingyi, the “clandestine” Catholic bishop … Continue reading
Science, a Baby’s Cells, a Mother, and the Assumption
This is an interesting little article that takes advantage of a new discovery of the union of mother and child even after birth. Holy Heroes: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven on August 15th has given me … Continue reading
There Never Was a Time for Cozy Catholicism, Especially Not Now
National Catholic Register, Msgr. Charles Pope: There is a growing consternation among some Catholics that the Church, at least in her leadership, is living in the past. It seems there is no awareness that we are at war and that Catholics … Continue reading
Sri Lanka: 400,000 Pilgrims Visit Shrine of Our Lady and St. Anne During August
AsiaNews: Hundreds of thousands of people, both Catholic and non Catholic this month have flocked to the nation’s Marian shrines to celebrate the feasts of St. Anne and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. More here.
China: Before Year’s End All Clergy Must Get Certified by Government-Controlled Patriotic Association
AsiaNews: Later this year, all priests must register to receive a certificate that allows them to exercise their ministry. But the request has to go through the Patriotic Association, whose statutes are “incompatible” with Catholic doctrine. Many priests, official and unofficial, … Continue reading
Are German Liberal Hierarchs Preparing for Priestless Church?
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: Alexander Kissler – the well-respected, often subtly ironic, conservative German journalist and editor of the culture section of the German journal Cicero who recently wrote a piercing critique of Pope Francis – has now written another important article … Continue reading
Olympian Convert Would Like to Have Had Dinner With Mother Angelica
CNA: When the New York Times interviewed retired Olympian Dominique Dawes, she was asked a peculiar question: if you could have dinner with one person who is no longer living, and whose obituary was published in the New York Times, … Continue reading
Two Friends of Loreto Publications Knighted in the Order of Isabela the Catholic
Maria Conchita Marquez de Lucero and her husband, John Padilla y Lucero are friends of Loreto. Albuquerque Journal: Call them “Sir” or “Dame.” Three people from New Mexico have been knighted into the Spanish royal order, La Orden de Isabel … Continue reading
