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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
(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
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
Crisis Magazine: Next week Washington DC will be treated to the arrival of a pro-life Catholic who is also a member of the British royal family. How is that possible? Nicholas Windsor gave up his place in line to the British … Continue reading
Society of Saint John Chrysostom: A prominent French bishop has accused Gregory III Laham, the Damascus-based Melkite Greek Patriarch of Antioch, of scheming with President Bashar al-Assad to block a planned Vatican peace visit to Syria by Catholic prelates in … Continue reading
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis on Monday morning held the Public Ordinary Consistory for the forthcoming Canonization of Blessed Pope John XXIII and Blessed Pope John Paul II. During the course of the Consistory in the Vatican’s Consistory Hall, the Pope … Continue reading
CatholicOnline: Obianuju Ekeocha: Beyond the economic implications of population decline, are the difficult social and cultural changes that are inevitable and inescapable in societies where the median age is constantly rising. Case in point Japan. The ramifications are profound for both young and old … Continue reading
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