CNA: Nina Pham, a Dallas nurse who has been battling Ebola after treating a patient in Texas, has now been declared free of the disease, and gave thanks to God and all those who have prayed for her in recent weeks. … Continue reading
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Married 73 Years Husband Dies 28 Hours After Wife
Catholic Online: Helen and Joe Auer had been married in 1941. Joe was a proud World War II veteran. Helen bore her husband 10 children. After it was all said and done, they had seen the births of 16 grandchildren, 29 … Continue reading
Jesuit College OKs Pagan Club
College Fix: Loyola UNIVERSITY Chicago recently christened a new pagan student club, with its student organizer saying the group aims to help pupils at the private Catholic COLLEGE find the God they seek, not just the one featured in the Bible. … Continue reading
China’s Secret ‘Black Jails’ Where Anti-Communist Women Disappear
UCANews: Eighty percent of people held in China’s unofficial detention centers, or “black jails,” are female, and many suffer routine abuse at the hands of their captors, according to a report published on Tuesday by the overseas-based Chinese Human Rights … Continue reading
The Failure of US Bishops to Stop Abortion
Mark Gallagher, Crisis Magazine: The bishops have continued on their failed course for forty years, with fateful, disastrous results. If the bishops would change course, the legal killing, now at 56 million, could be stopped. The bishops need to teach that: … Continue reading
‘Book of Remembrance’ Documents 1900 Catholic Victims of Soviet Communism
CNA: Catholic victims of the Soviet Union’s cruel anti-Christian persecutions faced execution, exile and arbitrary imprisonment for their faith – and now a new website tells their stories. “The persecution of the Church was immediate. It started within a couple … Continue reading
Mother Marija Benedykta, a Foundress With a Passion
Aleteia: Poisoning, arson, an intrepid religious sister making her way into the former Soviet Union — it sounds like the plot of a box office thriller, rather than the makings of a reformed religious order. But the story of the fledgling Paulicrucian … Continue reading
Poll: Non-Practicing Catholics Less Catholic Than Non-Catholics
It was conducted by St. Leo College in Florida. Phil Lawler has a commentary on Catholic Culture website. Lawler: The Catholic Church does not settle doctrinal questions by majority vote. And since surveys of Catholic opinion usually record the answers … Continue reading
Kenya: Bishops Question Tetanus Campaign, Vaccine May Cause Infertility
Catholic World News: The Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops has expressed concerned that a tetanus vaccine campaign aimed at women of childbearing years also has contraceptive properties that could render recipients permanently infertile, according to the Catholic Information Service for … Continue reading
Cardinal Kasper Into Damage Control Mode
Catholic World News: Cardinal Walter Kasper has expressed regret about controversial remarks on African prelates in a conversation with journalist Edward Pentin, according to Catholic World Report. Cardinal Kasper had initially denied making any remarks on Africans, but then Pentin … Continue reading
3000 Iraqi Christians Have Fled to Jordan and More Are Coming
Catholic World News: Three thousand Iraqi Christians who have fled the advance of the Islamic State are now being fed at parishes in Jordan, according to Archbishop Maroun Lahham, who serves as an auxiliary bishop of Jerusalem. Another 1,000 refugees … Continue reading
The Thousands of Irish Slaves Under the British
Irish Central: The history of the African slave trade into the Americas is well-documented as well as largely taught in American schools today. However, as John Martin of the Montreal-based Center for Research and Globalization points out in his article … Continue reading
Heart Breaking: Asia Bibi Loses Appeal, Lawyers Will Take It to Supreme Court
AsiaNews: After a hearing that lasted several hours, the Lahore High Court today upheld the death penalty sentence passed by a lower court against Asia Bibi, following her conviction in 2010 on blasphemy charges in 2010. Since then she has … Continue reading
Syria: 8 Year Old Boy from Kosovo Rescued from Jihadist Father
Kosovo Security know how to get things done. One boy rescued. But the carnage just gets worse. And the other refugees from Syria languish in desperate straits. NBC News: An 8-year-old boy from Kosovo was reunited with his mother late … Continue reading
Chris Ferrara Defends His Critique of Synod Against Mark Shea
The Remnant: Cardinal Mueller on Secret Synod’s Relatio: “Undignified, shameful, completely wrong.” Cardinal Burke on the Relatio: “Clearly, the response to the document in the discussion which immediately followed its presentation manifested that a great number of the Synod Fathers found … Continue reading
