CNA: A vandal with a sledgehammer who attacked statues at two parishes in Sulphur, La. was discovered in the adoration chapel at one of the churches. More on this here.
Category: News
Nativity Scene Wins Victory in Warren Michigan Over Anti-Christian Org
CNA: A 67-year-old tradition of placing a nativity scene on a public median in Warren, Mich. has been re-established after a four-year legal battle involving the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Full report here.
Homosexual Agenda Not Welcome in Russia
Zenit: A UN committee of legal experts reprimanded the Russian Federation last month for allowing the Ryazan province of Russia to enforce a law that bans the promotion of homosexuality among minors as part of a national effort to protect children … Continue reading
Atheist Org Runs Times Square Billboard Blaspheming Christ
The Remnant: This just in from Times Square. As long as they let us keep our precious religious liberty, we’ll sit back and let them defile Our Lord as much as they like. That’s the American way! Soldiers of Christ? Us? … Continue reading
Baghdad Cathedral Re-consecrated and Iraqi Ayatollah Issues Fatwa
AsiaNews: An Advent of light and shadow for Iraq’s Christians, who are celebrating the reopening of the cathedral of Baghdad but at the same time subjected to new – and heavy – threats from a radical Shiite Muslim leader. From studies … Continue reading
Domino’s Pizza Founder Files Suit Against HHS Mandate
MYFoxNY: The founder of Domino’s Pizza is suing the federal government over mandatory contraception coverage in the new health care law. More here.
Cardinal Zen: Is Theirs Not a Schismatic Church?
AsiaNews: It took five months. Msgr. Ma’s beautiful blog posts had, to some extent, relieved our anxieties. Beijing’s silence was understandable: they were otherwise occupied. A one-line comment arrived from Rome on July 8 and then a mention in the … Continue reading
Bobby Jindal Says Birth Control Pills Should Be Available Over Counter
Commonweal Blog: The Louisiana governor, a self-described pro-life Catholic, argues in a Wall Street Journal op-ed (behind the WSJ paywall) that birth control pills should be available over the counter. Here’s a paragraph cited by Austin Ruse at First Things: “As a … Continue reading
‘Catholic’ Universities Gave 10 Times More to Obama Campaign Than to Romney
California Catholic Daily: A Campus Reform investigation revealed that faculty and staff at Catholic universities gave overwhelmingly to President Obama’s reelection campaign. Read more here.
Soldiers Duped by Army into Being Lab Guinea Pigs
The American Conservative: Apropos Lewis Lapham’s article yesterday about government efforts to keep people from taking drugs, Raffi Khatchadourian has a memorable New Yorker piece about the Army giving them to people. Specifically the Edgewood Arsenal experiments in which soldiers were routinely dosed, in pursuit of a chemical … Continue reading
Socialist France Has Traditional Catholic Orgs Under Surveillance
“Hardline” Catholics may soon be prosecuted in France — and deported, if new president Francois Hollande and his socialists have their way. The newly established “National Observatory of Secularism” is rather Orwellian in its effort to intimidate, putting “creationists” and “ultra-traditional … Continue reading
Drury Hotel Founder: From Farm to Hotels, Always a Catholic First
CNA Interview: Missouri business executive Charles Drury, who helped found the hotel chain that bears his name, attributes his success to a firm reliance on God and a willingness to value family over material possessions. Read full interview here.
Rome Moscow 1962 Alliance
It’s old news to traditional Catholics, but good to see the record posted now on Catholic World Report website. Edward Pentin doesn’t mention the masonic connection however. Though there certainly were many communists who infiltrated the Church in the 50s, … Continue reading
Beguiled Boxing Champ Manny Pacquiao TKO’d
UCANews: Manny Pacquiao’s glorious boxing career came badly unstuck last week. His mother blames the Protestants. Read more here.
Scot Bishop Calls ‘Get With the Program’ Cameron ‘Disciple of Nero’
LifeSite News: In a two-page letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, Joseph Devine, the Catholic bishop of Motherwell in Scotland, has compared Cameron to Nero, the Roman emperor who persecuted Christians, for his determination to bring forward “gay marriage.” More … Continue reading
