Augusta, Georgis: An Augusta hospital has adopted a new policy banning Christmas carolers from singing religious songs in public patient areas. The Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center announced the new policy Monday according to the Athens-Banner Herald. “Military service veterans, male and female, … Continue reading
Baghdad: Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in three separate Christmas Day bombings in Baghdad, killing at least 37 people, officials said Wednesday. In one attack, a car bomb went off near a church in the capital’s southern Dora neighborhood, killing … Continue reading
CatholicOnline: The government has 30 days to file a notice of appeal of this ruling. Judge Jackson found that because Thomas Aquinas College self-insures, the challenged regulations could force the College to take steps to facilitate access to contraceptive and abortifacient … Continue reading
LifeNews: Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning abortion advertising. Some members of the Duma (the Russian state assembly), are talking about going even further and banning the procedure itself. The Russian Orthodox Church, whose numbers are swelling … Continue reading
96.4 Eagle: One of the most influential Catholic Bishops in the Middle East is expected to criticise Israel during the Christmas Eve midnight mass in Bethlehem. It is thought the Latin Patriach of Jerusalem, Archbishop Fouad Twal, will label Israel’s … Continue reading
I am in no way justifying what what happened yesterday in Gaza when a Palestinian sniper killed a fence-mender. Violence in a cause where the just have no natural hope whatsoever of victory, no matter the righteousness of the indignation, … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: In a 215-89 vote, the faculty senate of Santa Clara University has declared “invalid” a decision by Father Michael Engh, the university’s president, to stop providing insurance coverage for abortion. Inside Higher Ed reported that the university’s board of trustees … Continue reading
Par for the secularist course. School teachers in Long Island had a youth choir sing “Silent Night” without Jesus and Mary. Then they had the audacity to claim that they didn’t want to offend anyone, even going so far as … Continue reading
Rorate Caeli: It is with deep sadness and consternation we learn that in the circular letter of the 8th December, addressed to all the Friars of the Immaculate, the most Reverend Father Volpi, accuses some of the most prominent exponents of the Sisters of … Continue reading
Now retired San Francisco 49er, Steve Young, a Mormon, puts his two cents worth in on ‘gayness’ and other disorientations. And his wife, who has a homosexual brother, says she is happy to be a convert to Mormonism. And why? … Continue reading
The Telegraph: Guardsman Glenn Hockton, 19, asked for a rosary to take with him before being deployed to Afghanistan on a seven-month tour of duty with the Coldstream Guards in Helmand Province. He bent down to pick the rosary up … Continue reading
AsiaNews: Early next year, Chinese journalists will have to pass a new ideology exam to keep their press cards, in what reporters say is another example of the ruling Communist Party’s increasing control over the media under President Xi Jinping. It … Continue reading
Rorate Caeli: Rorate has, from the beginning, done everything we can to shed light on the unjust and problematic Vatican intervention in the Franciscans of the Immaculate (FI). This week, Catholic World Report ran a completely and thoroughly erroneous story on the FI that … Continue reading
CP US: A family in Newton, Mass., received an anonymous letter, reportedly from their neighbors, calling their home’s Christmas decorations “tacky and kitschy” and demanding that they take the decorations indoors because “not everybody in the neighborhood is Christian.” Kelly … Continue reading
AsiaNews: For two days, the faithful of the Diocese of Tangshan (Hebei ) have been keeping vigil over the body of Msgr. Paul Liu Jinghe , who died last December 11. The vigil in the cathedral is not just about prayer … Continue reading
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