Catholic Online: Officers then followed them through the rubbish dump where every single victim was shot, killed and dumped in a river near Iguala in Guerrero State. One witness confirmed reports that the students were targeted en route to protesting … Continue reading
Catholic Online: At least 47 students were killed at a northern Nigerian school in an attack organized by Islamist State-aligned terrorist group Boko Haram. A strong explosion rocked the Public Secondary School Potiskum, which is located in the economic capital … Continue reading
Mormons will find a way to carry on. Did I mention Brigham Young’s Green Meadow massacre? And these are the founders! Then, again, Henry VIII had six wives and killed two of them. And he started the Anglican Church. Then … Continue reading
From the account of Saint Martin’s biographer, Sulpicius Severus, a certain man joined the saint’s monastery in France for instruction as a catechumen. He died while the saint was away. When Saint Martin returned the deceased was still laid out … Continue reading
Four points, they made: (Pia de Solenni, Aletaia) That we are shocked at the level of dishonesty and casual manner in which such a serious issue is being handled by the Government. That a report presented to the Parliamentary … Continue reading
CrownofStars Blog: According to a report in the Italian magazine Medjugorje, the recent prohibition against Medjugorje prayer meetings in the Anagni-Alatri diocese of bishop Lorenzo Loppa was instigated by Cardinal Gerhard Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of … Continue reading
Crux: As the US Conference of Catholic Bishops opens its annual fall meeting in Baltimore today, German Cardinal Walter Kasper, often called the pope’s theologian, had a not-too-subtle message for the American Church. Kasper told a standing-room-only crowd at Catholic … Continue reading
Catholic News Service: The move had been widely expected since an Italian journalist reported it in September, and the cardinal himself confirmed it to reporters the following month. It is highly unusual for a pope to remove an official of … Continue reading
UCANews: Dog lovers in Iran could face up to 74 lashes under plans by hardline lawmakers that would ban keeping the pets at home or walking them in public. A draft bill, signed by 32 members of the country’s conservative-dominated … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has called upon Pakistan’s president to pardon Asia Bibi, a Christian woman sentenced to death on blasphemy charges. “The execution of Asia Bibi would be an irreparable loss for her family, … Continue reading
DavidLGray.INFO My friend Ellen emailed me a recent article by Catholic pundit Mark Shea entitled, Elton John and the five stages of Intentional Discipleship, which was a follow-up piece to his article written four days prior on October 31, 2014, … Continue reading
In the wake of the suicide of Brittany Maynard, the media was all aglow with accolades for her “courageous” decision to “die on her own terms.” She has now become the poster child for something called “death with dignity.” There … Continue reading
That is not going to happen, unless he converts to the Catholic Faith and tells his mother she is not the “head of the Church in England” and denounces the law that says a Catholic cannot be king or queen in … Continue reading
Latin Mass Society: Letters from the Bishop Semeraro of Albano, Italy, and then from Bishop Sarlinga of Zárate-Campana in Argentina, have declared that the lay faithful who receive the sacraments from priests and bishops of the Society of St Pius … Continue reading
CNA: Mark Miloscia, a candidate for Washington’s state senate, has been attacked for his Catholic faith and adherence to Church teaching on a website belittling his faith as incompatible with representing his district. Read more here.
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