LifeSite News: A group of Ursuline nuns whom billionaire Melinda Gates had claimed in a recent speech supports her campaign to inject tens of millions of women in impoverished countries with Depo-Provera and other contraceptive drugs, has issued a statement … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: The chaplain of the Swiss Guards has revealed that some Swiss Guards have not been practicing Catholics or made an individual confession before joining the corps. Read more here.
Catholic Culture: A Lebanese priest who baptized a Muslim woman has been kidnapped and released. More on this here.
(AFP) The United States on Wednesday opened its banking market to ICBC, China’s biggest bank, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. Just days after high-level US-China economic talks in Beijing, … Continue reading
LifeNews: A member of Congress has a sarcastic take on the controversy generated by the Obama administration over a White House visitors policy that requires pregnant women to register their unborn children when they check in at the front door. … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester, Massachusetts, has agreed not to attend commencement exercises at a local Catholic college, after he roused controversy by opposing the school’s choice of a commencement speaker. More on the why of this here.
Catholic Culture: Catholic schools in Wales have been informed that they must provide their students with a “balanced” perspective on same-sex marriage. More here.
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized Anna Maria College —founded by the Sisters of Saint Anne — for its decision to disinvite the Bishop of Worcester, the Most Reverend Robert J. McManus, to the school’s May 19th commencement … Continue reading
The Washington Free Beacon: The White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child—still residing in utero—must be counted as a full human being when its parents register for a White House tour, according to documents obtained by the Washington … Continue reading
UCANews: The fate of the blind and self-taught legal advocate Chen Guangcheng and his family was under the spotlight as US Secretary for State Hillary Clinton visited China last week for the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing. More on … Continue reading
(The New American) As some totalitarian-minded governments escalate their attacks on parental rights and homeschooling, the Vatican’s delegation to the United Nations called on the world to respect families, the rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, and … Continue reading
She could have been Britain’s First Lady but she chose to become a Benedictine nun. 44 year old Laura Adshead dated British Prime Minister, David Cameron, from spring 1990 to summer 1991. In 2008, after seeing her life slip more … Continue reading
Thomas J. Craughwell for National Catholic Register: No China scholar wants to answer a knock on the door and find Chinese government officials standing at his doorstep. Yet, in 2006, that is what happened to Jesuit Father Paul Mariani. He … Continue reading
CNA reports: Pope Benedict XVI encouraged the new class of recruits for the Swiss Guard to draw close to Christ as they embark on their roles as the pontiff’s guardians. Read more here.
US Vice President Joseph Biden surprised reporters when he said on May 6 that he would be “absolutely comfortable” with legal recognition of same-sex marriages. More here.
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