The AP’s Nicole Winfield gives us this story, under the headline, “Pope Opens Critical Week for Reform, Family Issues”: Pope Francis on Monday opened the most critical week of his year-old papacy: Two commissions of inquiry on Vatican finance are … Continue reading
Karen Anderson, Crisis Magazine: This Friday, February 14, the universal Church will not celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, even though everybody else will. This even though he has been venerated by Catholics for about 1,700 years as the patron saint of love and marriage. … Continue reading
Angel Queen: The February 10, 2014, Worcester [Massachusetts] Diocesan Dispatch publicizes the following upcoming pro-abort speaker at the local Jesuit College of the Holy Cross: TALK ABOUT PROPHETIC SPEECH AT HOLY CROSS Legal scholar and moral theologian M. Cathleen Kaveny, … Continue reading
EWTNews: According to a local bishop, numerous conversions of Muslims to Christianity occur every year in Lebanon but the true number is unknown because of the risk of social stigma and persecution. “Most of them try to go outside from Lebanon, … Continue reading
US Catholic: For years scientists have been puzzling over a vast die-off of bees in the United States and throughout Europe. After significant drops in recent years, alarms started sounding in 2012 when as much as 50 percent of the … Continue reading
LifeSiteNews: A priest in Ecuador has shared how he was conceived in rape when his mother was 13, and then later not only forgave his father but heard his confession. “I could be in a trash can, but I was … Continue reading
Catholic News Agency: Olympic cross-country skier Rebecca Dussault recently spoke to a large crowd of young adults in Denver, exhorting them to put their Catholic faith above everything else in life. “Be Catholic first and anything that flows from that … Continue reading
Zenit: Dr. Paul Bhatti gave an impassioned plea on behalf of suffering minority groups in Pakistan in interviews with Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need, after news broke that he had left his country for Italy. Denying that … Continue reading
Rorate Caeli: Sandro Magister, the respected Vatican correspondent for the Italian paper ‘L’Espresso’, recently published an article with the shock title; ‘When the Church of Rome Forgave Second Marriages’. Magister describes the current push to abandon the discipline of the Church and … Continue reading
National Catholic Register: Looking back, however, that injury was a great blessing — maybe one of the greatest in my life. I started to pray the Rosary and go to Mass on a daily basis. Going to Mass was about the … Continue reading
Catholic Online: The number of demolitions increased by almost half, 25 aid organizations have said. There is also the issue of displacement of Palestinians — by nearly three-quarters between July 2013, when the talks began, and the end of the … Continue reading
LifeNews: Country music star Gretchen Wilson, famous for Grammy Award-winning single “Redneck Woman,” doesn’t only sing about standing “barefooted in my own front yard with a baby on my hip,” she tweets about saving “unborn babies.” Wilson decided to perform at SeaWorld on … Continue reading
Catholic Online: The study found that the majority of Catholics worldwide disagree with church teachings on divorce, abortion and contraception. Many were split on whether women and married men should become priests. Commissioned by the U.S. Spanish-language network Univision, the … Continue reading
UCANews: The brother of assassinated Pakistani Catholic minister Shahbaz Bhatti has been forced to flee Pakistan after being threatened by Islamic militants. Paul Bhatti, chairman of the All Pakistan Minority Alliance, an umbrella organization of religious minorities, as well as the … Continue reading
UCANews: The Pope has approved the advancement of the causes for canonization of over one hundred lay Catholics persecuted for their faith, as well as a bishop, a religious sister, and two priests. In a decree on Feb. 7, Pope … Continue reading
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