Aletaia: I was once riding in a shuttle-bus with a number of older folks on the way from an airport. They noticed that I was a priest and started asking questions about it. “Do you do all of the priest stuff?” … Continue reading
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Apocalyptic Scenario: Could We Survive Off the Land? We May Have to
Hilary White mentions Triffids. Other than Tom Swift’s novels, I did read the 1951 sci-fi novel, The Day of the Triffids, when I was in about the seventh grade. It was circulating around our grammar school and, to be “on the … Continue reading
Pope Excommunicates Morally Heretical Priest
Catholic Herald: An Australian priest who supports the ordination of women has been excommunicated by Pope Francis. In the first such excommunication since the new pontiff took office Fr Greg Reynolds was dismissed in a letter from the Archbishop of … Continue reading
Mario Cuomo: Bishops and Catholic Public Officials Who Support Abortion
Steve Skojec, 1 Peter 5: 15 years ago last August, as I walked the streets of Vienna with my college classmates, we stopped briefly before a plain, unassuming church with an exterior the color of freshly dug clay. In a city … Continue reading
Obama Takes Daughters to Meet a Very Sick Rock Star
NBCNews: President Barack Obama is closing out his Hawaii vacation by hanging out with Pearl Jam rocker Eddie Vedder. Obama took his daughters, Sasha and Malia, to visit with Vedder and his family in Kailua, not far from where the … Continue reading
Goa: 45 Day Exposition of S Francis Xavier Closes, 4 Million Honor Him
UCANews: Close to four million pilgrims turned out to view the relics of Saint Francis Xavier during a 45-day exhibition in Goa, which concluded Sunday. The relics of the sixteenth-century missionary, presented at the “Exposition of the sacred relics of … Continue reading
Pope Names New Cardinals, None from USA
Whispers in the Loggia: As expected, at this Sunday’s noontime Angelus, the Pope revealed the names of 20 cardinals-designate – 15 electors, five over 80 – who’ll receive the red hat at the 14 February Consistory. Yet again, Francis’ second … Continue reading
Turkey: Government Allows First Church to be Built in 90 Years
Byzantine Texas: Turkey’s Islamic-rooted government has authorized the building of the first church in the country since the end of the Ottoman empire in 1923, AFP has learned. The church is for the country’s tiny Syriac community and will be … Continue reading
Vermont Priest Takes on the Cause of Persecuted Christians in Mid-East
National Catholic Register: Amid the cascade of crises across the world in 2014, it was all too easy to forget the desperate plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East. So as we ponder our New Year’s resolutions for 2015, let’s commit to … Continue reading
Death ‘Doctor’ Assists Six to Kill Themselves
LifeNews: A Maryland doctor has lost his medical license after suffocating six people to death in assisted suicides. More here.
Mario Cuomo Dead at 82
Catholic Culture: Mario Cuomo, who served as governor of New York from 1983 to 1994, died at the age of 82 on January 1, as his son Andrew began his second term as the state’s governor. Described by his Associated … Continue reading
After 2200 US Military Dead, US Ends Combat Mission in Afghanistan
AsiaNews: “We have lifted the Afghan people out of the darkness of despair and given them hope for the future,” said yesterday General John Campbell, current commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), as he announced the end of … Continue reading
Self-Sacrificing Japanese Aid Worker Enters Convent
AsiaNews: A successful career at the United Nations Development Programme, then a senior post at Caritas Japan. Finally, the profession of her first religious vows to become a nun and dedicate her life to God. This is the story of Sister … Continue reading
Sorrowful Plight of Iraqi Christian Refugees
CNA: Threatened by forced conversion or death at the hands of the Islamic State, many Iraqi Christians have had to flee their homes – but one refugee family sheltered at a Jordanian church has declared their continued faith. “We are nearly … Continue reading
The Hatred of Some Sick People Is for Jesus Personally
Catholic Culture: Recent days have witnessed the destruction of Christian symbols in Europe and the United States and the disruption of a Mass. On Christmas Day, a vandal entered a parish in Douai, France, and decapitated the heads of eight … Continue reading
