The Guardian: The blind Chinese rights activist, Chen Guangcheng has made a daring escape from his captors and put out a video exposing the abuse and beatings that his family suffered under house arrest. Read more here.
The Guardian: The blind Chinese rights activist, Chen Guangcheng has made a daring escape from his captors and put out a video exposing the abuse and beatings that his family suffered under house arrest. Read more here.
CNA: Cuban dissident Andres Carrion said he did not intend to offend the Catholic Church when he shouted “freedom” during the papal Mass in the country on March 26. “It was not my intention to tarnish the Mass, and I … Continue reading
Alan Shatter is an enemy of the Catholic Church. He wrote a book in 1979 mocking the Church’s teaching on birth control as it was once loyally implemented in Irish law by the nation’s ban on contraceptives — that was … Continue reading
No apologies have been issued for this outrageous crime, neither from Western Kentucky University nor from the campus police who did nothing to stop the vandalism. Here is part of the report from LifeNews: Kristina Arnold, the art professor of … Continue reading
LifeNews.com: The New Hampshire legislature has defeated a bill to de-fund Planned Parenthood and cut off funding to hospitals, clinics, and others who do abortions. Legislators complained the bill could adversely affect the state’s federal funding for its Medicaid program. … Continue reading
SouthBendTribune.com: At least 131 University of Notre Dame faculty members have signed a letter saying that the Most Rev. Daniel Jenky, Catholic bishop of Peoria, Ill., should renounce controversial remarks he made in an April 15 homily or resign from … Continue reading
AntiWar.com: Sunday’s ’60 Minutes’ broadcast of a 12+ minute story on Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinian Christians was a ‘strategic threat’ to Israel, according to top Israeli diplomats who are struggling to defend Ambassador to the US Michael Oren’s efforts to … Continue reading
God help the victims AsiaNews: Israel is ready, if necessary, to strike Iran, Lebanon and Gaza, Israeli Armed Forces Chief of Staff Lt Gen Benny Gantz said in an interview with top Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth. For him, the year … Continue reading
LifeSiteNews: Prayerbooks, rosaries, and pro-life pamphlets are a common sight outside Planned Parenthood’s massive facility in downtown Denver, but this year, local organizers of this spring’s Forty Days for Life campaign decided that one last piece was missing to bring … Continue reading
The same forces of “progress” and modernity that are pushing Catholics to civil disobedience in the US are at work in the UK. The issue is that cruelest of oxymorons, “gay marriage.”
CatholicOnline: The test flight of an experimental aircraft capable of traveling at 20 times the speed of sound was undertaken last August. The Pentagon has now released the results of the super-fast vehicle, boasting the capability of striking anyplace in … Continue reading
CNA: The much anticipated movie “Cristiada,” which recounts the story of the Cristero war in Mexico during the religious persecution of the 1920s, was released in Mexico on April 20. “This movie is not only going to be entertaining, it … Continue reading
The Canadian Secular Alliance and People for Education are expressing outrage that at least four teachers at a Catholic school in Mississauga, Ontario, have asked students to sign a petition in support of pro-life legislation. Read more here.
UCANews: Father Methodius Qu Ailin will be ordained bishop of Hunan this week, according to local Church sources. The 51-year-old priest has been approved by Pope Benedict XVI and recognized by the Chinese government, the sources said. The ceremony is … Continue reading
When we think our crosses are heavy, and they are, there are countless others who suffer far more and quietly. Then God takes them away to paradise. This young soccer player must have been quite a star in every sense. … Continue reading
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