CNA reports: It’s not every day that children in Piura, Peru, learn to play American football from the coach of a National Football League team. Read more here.
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Bishop Shlemon Warduni on the Suffering of Iraqi Christians
(LCR Blog) While multimillionaire Tony Blair lies, the cocky, comfortable Christian Bush gloats, and the neocons cash in, Iraqi Bishop Shlemon Warduni tells the truth about their treachery in a speech to America’s Catholic bishops this past June 13. As … Continue reading
Surprise: Di Noia to Ecclesia Dei
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In an effort to aid reconciliation attempts with traditionalist Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI has named U.S. Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia to fill a newly created post of vice president of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei.” … Continue reading
Woefully Ignorant: Half of Young Adults Unaware Planned Parenthood Does Abortions
LifeNews.com: A question in a new survey Students for Life of America released last week should cause alarm for pro-life advocate working against Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion business. In the Students for Life nationally-commissioned poll, young, college-aged adults, … Continue reading
Heroic Catholic Mother Succumbs to Cancer Two Weeks After Giving Birth
Despite this culture of death and abortion here we have another self-sacrificing mother pass away, Chiara “of the beautiful heart”(Corbella), who refused cancer treatment that would have endangered her pre-born baby’s life. There is, of course, Saint Gianna Beretta Molla … Continue reading
Cardinal Levada to Retire This Week as Head of CDF?
Catholic Culture: Cardinal William Levada, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will step down before the end of June, according to the Vatican Insider. More here with links.
British Columbia SC Overturns Law Against Euthanasia
Zenit: Last Friday the Supreme Court of the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC) ruled that the current law prohibiting physician-assisted suicide is invalid. More here.
Ex-Legionaire Writes Essay Arguing the Order Cannot Be Reformed
Catholic Culture: Writing for First Things, Father Thomas Berg, a former member of the Legion of Christ, argues that the troubled religious order cannot be reformed. Read more here.
Paraguay’s President, Who Abandoned Episcopacy, Impeached
Catholic Culture: Fernando Lugo, a former bishop who was laicized upon his election as Paraguay’s president in 2008, was impeached and removed from office by the nation’s legislature on June 22 following conflicts related to agrarian reform. More here.
Metropolitan Hilarion Meets with Excommunicated Bishop Ma in Beijing
Don’t miss Father Cervellera observations in the last four paragraphs. AsiaNews: Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, visited Beijing’s National Catholic Seminary on Wednesday. After a brief meeting with faculty and students, … Continue reading
Bogus Catholic Group Using Soros $ to Fight US Bishops on Obamacare
LifeNews.com: With the nation’s Catholic bishops launching a new campaign today, the Fortnight of Freedom, to draw attention to the ways in which the Obama administration is violating religious liberty and conscience issues, the bishops are finding themselves under attack. … Continue reading
Syrian Christians Vulnerable
(Fox News) Inside the besieged Syrian city of Homs, where hundreds of civilians are caught up in a fierce battle between rebels and government troops, a small group of Christians is making its own desperate pleas for safety. Christians, who … Continue reading
Admiral Tells Military Chaplain ‘Get in Line’ on New Homosexuality Rule or ‘Resign’
LifeSite News: Retired Col. Ron Crews, executive director of Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, “recounted an interchange in 2010 between Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a military chaplain. While Adm. Mullen was briefing the … Continue reading
Critic of Her Church’s Stand Against Contraception Mrs. Blair Attacks Full-Time Moms
The Telegraph: The wife of the former Prime Minister also accused some young women of seeking to “marry a rich husband and retire” instead of working. Mrs Blair, a QC and mother of four, criticised women who “put all their … Continue reading
Eight Abortuaries in Five States Caught Offering Sex-Selection Abortions
And these are only the ones caught by Live Action. LifeNews.com: Yet another new undercover video in an investigation of abortion clinics across the country has a Planned Parenthood abortion facility and another abortion clinic affiliated with the National Abortion … Continue reading
