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Tens of Thousands of Immigrants Arriving in Texas, Most Are Minors
Catholic News Service: More than 52,000 minors traveling alone and 39,000 families have been picked up this fiscal year. The number of children traveling alone has doubled over a year ago and is more than seven times the number that … Continue reading
Blacks Exploited by Calvinist Prosperity Preachers
Pardon the Protestant source, but the message is true. Whatever happened to the Josephites, Saint Katherine Drexel’s Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, and the Knights of Saint Peter Claver? The Catholic mission to Black Americans is dead, a mere social … Continue reading
Masons Hold Conference Lauding Vatican II, Theologians Give Speeches
Rorate Caeli: The largest and most influential Masonic organization in Italy is the Grand Orient of Italy [Grande Oriente d’Italia]. Yes, it is the very same Grand Lodge whose Grand Masters always worked for the humiliation of the Apostolic See, from … Continue reading
Meriam Ibrahim Re-arrested at Khartoum Airport
Moslem persecution continues with a vengeance. Now they have arrested her husband and two children. NBC News: A mother who was freed from death row for refusing to renounce Christianity has been re-arrested just a day later while trying to leave Sudan, … Continue reading
Pope Says Mafia Criminals Are ‘Excommunicated’
AsiaNews: “Ndrangheta is… adoration of evil and contempt for the common good. We must stop this evil and say no! Our young people are asking this of us. In order to meet these demands, faith can help us”: with these words, … Continue reading
New Report: Court Orders Meriam Ibraham Released
Although this is happy news, Catholic Asia Bibi is still in captivity in Pakistan. LifeNews.com: Reports today indicate the Sudan court has reversed itself and will free Meriam Ibraham, the pregnant Christian woman jailed and sentenced to be flogged and hanged for … Continue reading
Chinese Catholics Breathe Devotion to Sacred Heart
AsiaNews: Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in China is a fact of life for the Catholic faithful, just as, and perhaps more so than, in all the regions of the Catholic Church throughout the world. Ask a Chinese … Continue reading
Southern General Longstreet Converted by Jesuit Poet Abram Ryan
Donald R. McClary, The Catholic Stand: It was in New Orleans on March 7, 1877 that Longstreet converted to the Catholic faith. His conversion was brought about by Father Abram J. Ryan, the poet laureate of the Confederacy. An Episcopalian, … Continue reading
Communist Authorities Say Bishop Ma Must Continue His ‘Repentance and Reflection’
UCANews: Auxiliary Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin, who has been under de facto house arrest since 2012, is to remain in detention. The influential bishop, who defied the government in July 2011 when he became the first bishop to publicly quit the … Continue reading
Italy’s Missio ad Gentes Journal Folds Due to No Mission
AsiaNews, Piero Gheddo (dean of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions in Milan): This is not good news for us missionaries ad gentes and the Italian Church. The superiors of Italy’s missionary institutes have decided to end the publication of … Continue reading
Picture of the Cardinal Who Buried Our Lady’s ‘Message’ in the Third Secret of Fatima
A picture says a thousand words. Three interviews with Sister Lucia and all Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said about it in his book, The Last Fatima Visionary, were a few statements negating that there was more to the Secret. “Everything has been published. There … Continue reading
Joey Lomangino, Blind Garabandal Devotee, Passed Away, R.I.P.
Friends of mine, and my mother, met him at a Rosary rally back in the late 60s in New Jersey. The seers assured him he would live to see “the miracle” and his sight would be restored at that time. … Continue reading
11 Billion for the World Cup in Brazil $$$
Unbelievable! The idolatry of sports $$$. And the poor are cast aside. Here is one report from a media outlet I despise. But the facts are still real. Who is making this money? Who is capitalizing on wasted investments while … Continue reading
Neighboring Village Rivalries, Not Just Football, But Religious Vocations
NYTimes.com: Growing up, the twins, now 26, milked cows side by side on the family farm. They both graduated at the top of their high school class. And with theirordination on Saturday, they have begun careers as Roman Catholic priests, … Continue reading
