Rorate Caeli has the full article that has just been expunged from the Washington DC Archdiocesan website. So here it is: Time to End the St. Patricks Parade and the Al Smith Dinners? By: Msgr. Charles Pope The time for happy-clappy, lighthearted engagement … Continue reading
Journal Star: Efforts to canonize Archbishop Fulton Sheen have been suspended indefinitely, the Catholic Diocese of Peoria announced Wednesday afternoon. Read more here.
Zenit: In the wake of a visit to the region, a delegation from the Latin Patriarchate has compared Gaza to cities destroyed during the Second World War. Bishop William Shomali, patriarchal Vicar of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem of the Latins, … Continue reading
AsiaNews: As of yesterday at least 400 hectares of land in the area of Gevaot of the occupied West Bank have been expropriated, and have been declared “state land” that will strengthen the illegal Israeli settlements of Etzion, near Bethlehem. … Continue reading
AsiaNews: For the first time in months, Iraqi soldiers, Kurdish peshmerga and Shiite militias have launched a counter-offensive against the jihadists of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. Thanks to the support of US air raids two days ago they broke … Continue reading
AsiaNews: Auxiliary Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin of Shanghai, who is confined at Sheshan seminary, offered his blessings on Aug. 31 for the three new auxiliary bishops of Hong Kong ordained the previous day. The new auxiliary bishops are Shanghai-born Michael Yeung … Continue reading
American Catholic: If you want to know what is going on in Cuba, the Babalu blog is the go to blog. Carlos Eire tells us about the man who has just become my favorite papal nuncio: Archbishop Bruno Musarò, Apostolic Nuncio to Castrogonia, blasted the … Continue reading
The Washington Free Beacon: The FBI’s most recent national threat assessment for domestic terrorism makes no reference to Islamist terror threats, despite last year’s Boston Marathon bombing and the 2009 Fort Hood shooting—both carried out by radical Muslim Americans. Instead, … Continue reading
TFP website: Vaticanist Andrea Tornielli has published on the Vatican Insider site a serious testimony about Padre Pio’s bilocation to the Hungarian dungeon where Joszef Cardinal Mindszenty was imprisoned in the fifties.The Hungarian anticommunist cardinal was a fierce adversary of … Continue reading
Well, a half hour is too much. After a half hour of research if you can’t get a grip on a “movement” that has “communities” in eighty countries then I’d say one should stop trying. I have no clue, after … Continue reading
Vatican Insider: The bishops will ask questions to the presidential candidates in person. And in a very particular place: the building of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida. It is an initiative announced in these days by the … Continue reading
I gave this title to this news item because it is the title of an article that appeared in an early issue of From the Housetops. We posted it here on our website. Wael Farouq and many other Moslems like him … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: Bishop Galantino said that he hoped that Church leaders will “listen without any taboo to the arguments in favor of married priests, the Eucharist for the divorced, and homosexuality.” More on this here.
Vatican Radio: Pope Francis met briefly Wednesday with Dr. Paul Bhatti, former Pakistani Minister for National Harmony and Minorities. Dr. Bhatti attended the weekly General Audience where he and his mother, both Catholics, had an opportunity to speak with the Pope. … Continue reading
California Catholic Daily: A Memorial Mass is scheduled August 30, 10:00 a.m. at Holy Angels in Arcadia for Father Stuart Long, 50, who died June 9 in Helena, Montana after a long illness. Father Stu joined Holy Angels through the … Continue reading
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