Reuters: Behind WCRW’s coverage is a fact that’s never broadcast: The Chinese government controls much of what airs on the station, which can be heard on Capitol Hill and at the White House. WCRW is just one of a growing number … Continue reading
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Ross Douthat Throws Down the Gaunlet: Challenges Liberal Press, Let’s Get it On
Rorate Caeli: In what is arguably still the most influential mainstream publication in the world, The New York Times, Catholic columnist Ross Douthat — who days ago had had his very ability to speak and to have his views merely published … Continue reading
Global Warming? How About Hell? Grandad’s Letter to Grandaughter
Rorate Caeli: In 20 years time you might want to get married, but what the Sacrament of Matrimony is in 20 years will be determined by what we are doing today, or rather, will depend on a verdict made by the … Continue reading
Ukrainian Church Decries Synod Discussing Homosexuality When the Family Was the Issue
Crisis: Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Head of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: “It is a great tragedy and a great moral evil to propagandize homosexuality as some kind of model for relations or even the attempt, at the legislative level, to compare such … Continue reading
Holy Father Should Stop Talking to Scalfari
Catholic Herald: The Vatican has said that an interview which quotes the Pope as saying that “all divorced who ask will be admitted” to Communion is “in no way reliable” and “cannot be considered as the Pope’s thinking”. In an article … Continue reading
Columnist for THE WEEK Exposes Duplicity of Liberals Ganging Up Against Douthat
The Week, Damon Linker: Opinion journalism isn’t a career for the thin-skinned. In the age of social media, that’s truer than ever. Pundits are paid to hit hard, and their critics — frequently dozens of them, and sometimes hundreds or thousands … Continue reading
China: Warning to Catholics to be Patriotic First Before Catholic
Religious Affairs Administration says Catholics must “walk the path of an independent church.” UCANews: Authorities overseeing religion in China told a group of Catholic bishops and leaders to insist on “sinicization,” in a gathering that took place soon after Beijing concluded … Continue reading
Teresa of Avila on Her Vision of Hell
I clipped this from Brantly Millegan of Church Pop. Note the saint’s pain for Lutherans who died in their heresy: The entrance seemed to be by a long narrow pass, like a furnace, very low, dark, and close. The ground … Continue reading
Pat Buchanan on Heresy at the Synod
“Are Catholic truths immutable? Or can they change with the changing times? “This is the deeper question behind the issues that convulsed the three-week synod on the family of the 250 Catholic bishops in Rome that ended Saturday.” Full column … Continue reading
China Relents (a Little) on Murderous One Child Policy
Why “a little”? Couples will legally be able to have two children. The Communist leadership wants to diffuse a “demographic time bomb.” (Bloomberg Business) China’s ruling Communist Party will abandon the one-child policy introduced in the late 1970s to defuse … Continue reading
Ben Carson Opposes Abortion in Cases of Rape or Incest
LifeNews: “You know, things are set up in such a way that the person in the world who has the greatest interest in protecting the baby is the mother,” claimed Carson. “We’ve allowed the purveyors of the vision to make … Continue reading
Bishop Conley: ‘Counterfeit Conscience’ No Appeal at Final Judgment
First Things: A Catholic who believes that conscience might really abrogate the Gospel has abandoned belief in the normativity of divine law, and its contribution to human flourishing. And a pastor who fails to instruct a misguided conscience seems to … Continue reading
Denver Archbishop Challenges German Episcopate
CNA: “And this begs the question: Do the German bishops believe that Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher sacrificed their lives in vain?” Part of the column from the Archbishop is here.
Spain’s Socialist Party Wills to Take Religion Out of Catholic Schools
CNA: As Spain prepares for its general election in December, Pedro Sánchez, the leader of the nation’s socialist party, has said that if elected his government will pull religion courses from both public and private schools. Sánchez leads the Spanish Socialist … Continue reading
Bishop Sees Satan and Marxism Behind Agenda of Synod Modernists
The errors of Russia, one of which is Communism, are spreading more rapidly than ever, infiltrating the Church itself. LifeSiteNews: From interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider: This is ultimately neo-Communist and Marxist because the ideology of Marx wants to abolish every … Continue reading
