International Business Times, Nigeria: A prominent Nigerian reverend has revealed Islamist terror group Boko Haram destroyed over 180 churches in the West African country following its capture of towns and villages in the north-eastern states of Borno and Adamawa. Reverend … Continue reading
National Catholic Register: Franciscan Father Benedict Joseph Groeschel, well-known preacher and a founder of the Community of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, died on Friday at age 81, after an extended illness. “We are deeply saddened by the death … Continue reading
(Aletia) I certainly had serious difficulties with what Cardinal Kasper was proposing. In proposing it, he was urging a direction which, in the whole history of the Church, has never been taken, a direction which would in some way involve either … Continue reading
Deo Gratias! NYTimes: Thirteen abortion clinics in Texas were forced to close immediately after a federal appellate court on Thursday sided with Texas in its yearlong legal battle over its sweeping abortion law and allowed the state to enforce one … Continue reading
10,000 rally against the 200 perverts in Belgrade. Russia Insider: So you want to understand Russia? Well here’s something you won’t hear about in the western media. Read more here.
NYTimes: After a nine-hour day working at a citrus packing plant, her body covered in a sheen of fruit wax and dust, there is nothing Angelica Gallegos wants more than a hot shower, with steam to help clear her throat … Continue reading
The persecution of the Friars of the Immaculate grows more outrageous. Rorate Caeli: The ongoing affair of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate has arrived at a point at which Commissioner Fidenzio Volpi, who is responsible for this disaster, is … Continue reading
LifeSiteNews: Rand Paul has said he had no objection to using the morning after pill as a form of “birth control.” The junior U.S. senator from Kentucky and likely 2016 presidential hopeful responded to a question on the topic yesterday … Continue reading
“Gossip bombs” UCANews: The biggest threat facing the Vatican isn’t a bomb or bullet from the outside, but the insidious work of mischief-makers within, who fuel discord and resentment, Pope Francis told the Vatican’s security force. “There are bombs in … Continue reading
California Catholic Daily: Pacific Justice Institute is representing a parent who discovered what they called a “Christian purging” of the charter school’s library. “She was told by one of the library attendants that the library has been instructed to remove … Continue reading
Vatican Insider: The eighty-two-year-old Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong, the fighter, Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, spent the night out in the square with students from the Occupy Central movement. He gave up the leadership of the diocese in 2009 and … Continue reading
CatholicOnline: Dr. Broderick says that reports “narrate stories of the U.S. Department of Defense funding Ebola trials on humans, trials which started just weeks before the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The reports continue and state that the [department] … Continue reading
CNA: “(Some Cardinals) fear a domino effect, that if one thing changes, everything will collapse. That’s their fear. All this is related to ideology, an ideological interpretation of the Gospel, but the Gospel is not a penal code. As the Pope … Continue reading
Daily Beast: On the outskirts of Rome along the ancient Catholic pilgrim route known as the Via Francigena and not far from a giant shopping center featuring a massive IKEA and the French do-it-yourself Mecca called Leroy Merlin, cranes are … Continue reading
What is missing in all this? What is missing in this is a call for the conversion of the Moslems and all non-Catholics. Good example is fine, essential, but so is the invitation, explicit and in charity, to believe in … Continue reading
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