AsiaNews: The security forces charged with protecting the Christians of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Warraq were not present at the time of the Islamist attack that left four dead and over 20 injured. This was revealed by the … Continue reading
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14 Year-Old Seminarian Killed by Communists Beatified
National Catholic Register: “Tomorrow, one priest less,” said the political commissioner of one of the Communist Party’s “Garibaldi Brigades” of Monchio, a small town in the northern Italian province of Modena. Those words uttered in 1945 signaled the commissioner’s decision … Continue reading
Pope Suspends Bishop for Lavish Expenditures
DW Top Stories: Pope Francis announced he would remove Bishop of Limburg Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst from his position for the time being, according to a Vatican statement on Wednesday. The decision came two days after the pontiff held a private … Continue reading
CDF Upholds Law on Not Allowing Communion for Divorced Catholics
Catholic Culture: In a lengthy statement published in L’Osservatore Romano, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has strongly affirmed the Church’s teaching that Catholics who are divorced and remarried may not receive Communion. Following the … Continue reading
Priest Threatened With Arrest If He Says Mass On Naval Base
Thomas More Law Center: In the wake of the government shutdown, despite provisions in the Pay Our Military Act, Catholics at Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia are being denied religious services. The Catholic priest who serves this community … Continue reading
Do Whatever You Can to get Your Children Out of These ‘Schools’
Sparks, Nev. middle-schooler Jose Cazares and his mom, Marisela are “forever grateful” for a hero teacher they say saved the boy’s life Monday. A young student opened fire on the school’s basketball court Monday, shooting and killing math teacher Mike Landsberry and … Continue reading
Olympic Gold Medal Runner Thanks Nuns for Inspiring Him
Catholic News Agency: At a Vatican athletic event promoting the connection between faith and sports, British Olympic gold medalist runner Jason Gardener credited Catholic nuns for encouraging him to succeed. He recounted his first involvement in sports at age six at … Continue reading
Salesian, Tortured and Killed by Communists, Beatified
Catholic Culture: Stephen Sándor (1914-53), a Hungarian Salesian brother murdered by the postwar Communist regime, was beatified as a martyr in Budapest on October 19. “We respect in him the exceptional laborer who taught youth the love of work,” preached … Continue reading
Africa Holding Out Against UN Pressure to Accept Sexual Agenda and Abortion
Catholic Lane: Late Friday night, the last day of the final meeting in a series of UN conferences, African officials rejected attempts by UN and sexual rights activists to promote homosexuality and abortion. The UN conference to draft a development … Continue reading
Sister Antonia, 30 Years a Prisoner of Prisoners, RIP
Los Angeles Times: Sister Antonia Brenner, a Beverly Hills-raised mother of seven who became a Roman Catholic nun and moved into a notorious Tijuana prison where she spent more than three decades mending broken lives, easing tensions and dispensing everything from … Continue reading
Anti-Catholic Atheist Invited to Address Students at Jesuit College
Catholic Education Daily: An outspoken atheist philosopher who has called the Catholic Church “corrupt” and called for its eradication will be speaking at LeMoyne College in New York later this month. Michael Ruse, PhD., who calls himself a non-believer, will be speaking … Continue reading
522 Spanish Martyrs Beatified
(The Telegraph) Spain’s Catholic Church has beatified 522 “martyrs”, mostly clerics killed during the Spanish Civil War, prompting fury from Franco-era victims’ groups who say the honour “legitimised” his dictatorship. Read more… Catholicism.org: The biased news media cannot hide their … Continue reading
Our Lady of the Rosary Church in NYC
National Catholic Register: “People say, ‘Wow!’ when they walk in,” Father Walter Tonelotto enthused as we talked about the church he pastors, Our Lady of the Rosary of Pompeii Church in New York City. That jaw-dropping response happens upon entering … Continue reading
Military Priests Face Arrest for Celebrating Mass
(CatholicVote.org) According the Archdiocese for Military Services, GS and contract priests (who are paid by the federal government as independent contractors in places where there aren’t enough active-duty priests to meet the needs of Catholics in military service) are being … Continue reading
Hans Kung Considering Suicide
Catholic Culture: The dissident theologian Hans Küng has revealed that he is considering assisted suicide. Küng, who at the age of 85 is suffering from Parkinson’s disease, writes in a forthcoming memoir that he does not “want to live on … Continue reading
