AsiaNews: Yehuda Shaul, co-founder of ‘Breaking the Silence,’ an organisation of Israeli soldiers and veterans who denounce Israeli violence in the occupied territories, agrees. “Anyone who thinks that Israel can indefinitely control Palestinians by force suffers from [. . .] blindness. … Continue reading
Catholic Online: The 200 children were forced to lie stretched out in the dirt side-by-side in a single long line. At least 12 gunmen, armed with assault rifles and handguns, are seen standing behind the children. More on this here.
Imagine living in this war-torn nation not knowing if you will be the victim of terror at any moment. Yet the brave faithful gather for Holy Mass. Catholic News Agency: When a missile hit the roof of the church of Saint … Continue reading
Catholic Herald: Bishop Melki, who was martyred during the Assyrian Genocide, will soon be ‘blessed’. The bishop was killed in Gazarta during the sayfo – “putting to the sword” – of Syrians in 1915, after he refused to convert to Islam. … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: In an article published on the front page of L’Osservatore Romano, an Italian theologian who participated in the last two synods on the family said the people of God can rejoice that the more recent synod’s final report … Continue reading
Joseph Pearce, The Imaginative Conservative: It is often forgotten that the Catholic presence in England is older than England itself. From the martyrdom of St. Alban in the early fourth century, under the Roman occupation, the land has been blessed … Continue reading
Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture: For some reason nearly every news outlet (except CWN), used the same word in its headline, proclaiming that China has “abolished” its one-child population policy. That’s not the case. Full report is here.
Interfax Religion: Moscow, November 5, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia urges to sober evaluation of the Soviet period in the Russian history. “There would not be modern Russia, if not heroism of the preceding generations, who in … Continue reading
Great article here by David Warren for The Catholic Thing. “You’re a hater, you’re a hater, you’re a hate hate hater!” This would be my hateful pastiche of the criticism that “conservatives” receive when they mess with the self-conceits of … Continue reading
CNA: When Catholic police officer Sharif Said goes out on his beat patrolling the suburbs of Milwaukee, he brings his faith with him. On the front of his police vest, he pins a medal of St. Michael, the patron saint of … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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