What a wonderful idea. God bless them all. That’s 350 priests at one mall for just two days. Could that happen in the USA? Wish it could. Even ten priests at a mall for two days! Bogotá, Colombia, Oct 14, … Continue reading
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Terrible Fire Damages Institute of Christ the King Church in Chicago
Chicago Tribune: Hours after the last flames had been put out, a firefighter walked down the blackened steps of Shrine of Christ the King Church on Wednesday and handed over a statue covered in gold vestments and topped with a crown. … Continue reading
Saudi Arabia: Brit, 74, Over a Year in Jail, Now Set for 350 Lashes for Making Wine
The Sun: A SICKLY 74-year-old British grandad is facing 350 lashes at a public flogging in Saudi Arabia for having home-made wine. Karl Andree, who has had cancer three times and is asthmatic, has been in jail more than a year. More … Continue reading
Long-Held Syrian Priest Credits Our Lady for Escape from ISIS
AsiaNews: For Syria’s Syriac Catholic community, this is a time of rejoicing because of Fr Jacques Mourad’s newfound freedom but also of anxiety, “great concern” and prayers for the fate of more than 190 Christian hostages from Al-Qaryatayn , a town … Continue reading
Cardinal Daneels: Pope’s Number Two Man Chosen for Delegate to Synod
1P5, Steve Skojek: At St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. Pope Francis addressed the victims of clerical sex abuse in no uncertain terms: I carry in my heart the stories, the suffering and the pain of the minors who were … Continue reading
Persecuted Catholics Leaving Goa, City of SF Xavier
UCANews: Goa, the former Portuguese colony and a Catholic stronghold in western India, has for the first time this century shown a marginal increase in the Christian population. Religion-based data for the 2012 census released last month shows an increase of … Continue reading
B.Y.O.G (Bring Your Own Guts)
Just for inspiration. Justin Bell, National Catholic Register: Dear Notre Dame fans: I sympathize with your loss last Saturday night. As a Catholic with some Irish descent, it’s natural to support your squad in most games. (I can’t recall ND … Continue reading
Paulists March On in Their Quest for a New Inclusive Church
“It has been our pastoral and personal experience, that members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community are people of good will, deep faith, with an abiding sense of their own Catholicity who have probed the depths of their … Continue reading
What? No Bacon? All Pork Banned From Federal Prisons
Now there’s an incentive to keep the law. Moslems are laughing all the way to the hamburgers. Good to see the president is doing his job. Or, was it the First Lady? In a move that seems suspiciously Muslim in nature, … Continue reading
The Child Wasting Away for His Lying Parents
“And so he got drunk” Great article by Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing: “I have been thinking lately about marriage and annulments, and our Lord’s command that we should go forth to seek the one lost sheep that has wandered in … Continue reading
Actor Kelsey Grammer Fighting for the Unborn
The Deacon’s Bench: What does the name Abort73 actually mean? The connection becomes more clear after watching our intro video, January 1973, which plays on the Abort73 homepage. We took the word “abortion” and shortened it to “abort” – which can either … Continue reading
Damian Thompson On the Synod, On Target as Usual
The Spectator:Pope Francis’s three-week Synod on the Family began on Sunday. Most of the 279 ‘Synod Fathers’ are senior bishops, many of them cardinals. They have no authority to change any aspect of Catholic teaching or pastoral practice. They are … Continue reading
African Bishops Speak Out on West Imposing Anti-Family Tags on Aid
CNA: In an Oct. 8 interview with CNA, Archbishop John Baptist Odama of Gulu and president of the Ugandan Episcopal Conference called the act “criminal,” and said ideologies must never be attached to receiving aid, which is meant to save lives. … Continue reading
22 dead and 33 Still Unaccounted for in Saturday’s US Bombing of Doctors’ Hospital
Apology not enough Mr. Obama. This is outrageous. What kind of a “mistake” is this? Who ordered it? What will happen to those responsible? Anything? NBCNews: Thirty-three people remain unaccounted for five days after the deadly U.S. bombing of a … Continue reading
Aberrant Oakland Priest Assumes He Can Challenge the Church on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’
And in good standing he is. The ‘Catholic’ Voice: “But we all know of heterosexual marriages,” intones Father Danielson, “that are miserable places in which to raise a child and many of us know of homosexual couples who raise children with … Continue reading
