NY Times: But even some past defenders of the ban seemed willing to accept the change. William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said that as long as any group was eligible to march under a banner, and the rules … Continue reading
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ISIS Threatens Pope: Italy on Security Alert
Breitbart: Il Tempo reported that according to their sources within Italy’s intelligence services, the Islamic State plans on “raising the level of confrontation” with Pope Francis because he is the “greatest exponent of the Christian religion.” Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi … Continue reading
DC Monsignor Calls for End of St. Patrick Parades and Al Smith Dinners
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
Fulton Sheen’s Cause Stymied Due to NY Archdiocese
Journal Star: Efforts to canonize Archbishop Fulton Sheen have been suspended indefinitely, the Catholic Diocese of Peoria announced Wednesday afternoon. Read more here.
Gaza Is Destroyed: Survivors Thankful to Have a Little Fish
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
Israel Steals Near 2 Square Miles Land in West Bank
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
ISIS Forces Routed in Some Cities in North Iraq
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
China: Bishop Ma Offers Blessing in Detention for New Bishops
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
Apostolic Nuncio to Cuba Blasts Communist Regime
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
Islamists Not on FBI Domestic Threat List But Anti-Abortionists Are
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
Padre Pio Bilocated to Cardinal Mindszenty’s Prison Cell
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
Communion and Liberation?
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
Brazil’s Bishops to Host a TV Debate of Candidates for Presidency
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
Good News: Moslems Can Be Converted
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
Head of Italian Bishops Conference Wants to Undermine Sacrament of Marriage
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.
