CNSNews.com: An eyewitness appearing on “90 minutes,” a program on the al-Mehwar satellite network, said 25-year-old Mary Sameh George was attacked in her car near a church, where she planned to deliver medicine to an ill and elderly woman. Protestors … Continue reading
Over seven years a prisoner in Hanoi, the valiant father of seven, died Friday, March 28, at the age of 89. There are probably other posts, but this tribute by Debbie Lord just caught my attention. AL.com People remembered Sen. … Continue reading
AsiaNews: [F]or Hilarion, the Greek-Catholic Church is a major obstacle in relations between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Holy See. The Orthodox, he said, have always perceived the Uniates in a very negative light, “as a special project by the Catholic … Continue reading
Fitting, for the last day of the month of Saint Joseph. National Catholic Register: Heading into spring training in February, San Diego Padres’ pitcher Joe Wieland was feeling great. He thought his previous arm injuries were behind him, and he was hoping, by … Continue reading
What do you expect, really, from Hollywood? No, I have not seen the movie, but this reviewer, Barbara Nicolosi, writing for Patheos website has seen it. And, reading her review, one can see that she is obviously an experienced and … Continue reading
Would you like an effective weight-loss plan that actually forbids eating less and overcoming your sloth to exercise? So would many people. There isn’t one. Which brings us to HIV/AIDS… (Breitbart News) The Obama administration, along with the European Union … Continue reading
Rorate Caeli: Marco Tosatti reporting for La Stampa, exclusive: The Consistory on the 22nd February to discuss the family, was supposed to be secret. Instead a decision came from the top that it was opportune to publish Cardinal Kasper’s long … Continue reading
These Stone Walls: Claudia Rosett, is journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and heads its investigative reporting project. Clearly, she is not someone with a defensive pro-Catholic axe to grind. Her article [Wall Street Journal, “The U.N. Assault on the … Continue reading
California Catholic Daily: In a number of Catholic high schools in the archdiocese of San Francisco, the departments of religious studies are populated by, and in some cases chaired by, teachers who not only do not adhere to but are active … Continue reading
After posting a column about Saint Margaret Clitherow, whose feast day is tomorrow, I wondered how many saints there were with the name “Margaret”? I could name several, including Margaret of Scotland, Margaret Mary Alacoque (whose life I wrote about here), … Continue reading
These Stone Walls Blog: Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Pornchai Maximilian Moontri. Please note that the sobriquet, “G” refers to Fr Gordon MacRae. In prison, titles from a previous life are not permitted. There are not many … Continue reading
Rorate Caeli: Liverpool is the largest diocese in the whole island of Great Britain by number of nominal Catholics – at least according to the Annuario Pontificio (source) – so it certainly is a source of great joy that its new archbishop, Abp. … Continue reading
CounterPunch: The immediate precursor to today’s pro-Israel lobby began in 1939[i]under the leadership of Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, originally from Lithuania. He created the American Zionist Emergency Council (AZEC), which by 1943 had acquired a budget of half a million dollars at a time when … Continue reading
MassResistance: These days there aren’t too many big pro-family victories to celebrate. But Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston was one of them! It went wonderfully. The organizers stood up to the politicians and the rabid media who tried relentlessly to force them … Continue reading
This is an interesting story in that the Sister, recently deceased, who was behind the project, claimed that an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in place of a photograph she had taken, using an old box camera, of … Continue reading
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