AsiaNews: This Easter, 3,500 adult catechumens in the Hong Kong diocese will receive the Sacrament of Christian Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation and Holy Communion) at various parishes at the Holy Saturday Vigil today, April 7. Read more here.
Category: News
China’s Police Increasing Pressure on Underground Church to Join Schismatic Patriotic Association
AsiaNews: The Easter holiday will be “very discreetly” celebrated this year in unofficial (underground) communities in China. Many community leaders, bishops and priests, were in fact called in by the police for a “conversation” and even underwent weeks of indoctrination … Continue reading
Blasphemous Bar in Baltimore
(Eponymous Flower) Most of the world isn’t going to understand the significance of the Mass, that it’s the unbloody commemoration [representation, actually] of the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, the most sacred event a Catholic can experience in this life. … Continue reading
Cardinal Will Defy Government Ban, Wants Christians to Wear Cross Proudly
Catholic Culture: Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Edinburgh, Scotland will use his Easter Sunday homily to encourage Christians to wear a cross, the Scotsman has learned. More on this here.
Hugo Chavez Begs Christ for Healing at Holy Thursday Mass
Catholic Culture: Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who has clashed repeatedly with the nation’s bishops since becoming president in 1999, attended Mass on Holy Thursday and prayed that he be cured of cancer. Weeping, he said, “Give me life even if … Continue reading
Anti-Abortion Doctor Jailed 10 Years by Castro Says There is no Freedom in Cuba
CNA reports: Cuban doctor and former political prisoner Oscar Elias Biscet noted that while Pope Benedict’s recent visit to the country was a success, religious freedom among the island’s people remains stifled. In an interview with Peruvian newspaper El Comercio, … Continue reading
Ex Imam Catholic Convert Beaten Nearly to Death in Bangladesh
AsiaNews: “I believe in Christ. I welcomed him” for “he is my saviour,” said Vincent (not his real name for security reasons), a former Bangladeshi imam who is now Catholic and for this reason has endured persecution for a long … Continue reading
Cardinal Ranjith Reiterates that Communicants Receive Kneeling and on the Tongue
Rorate Caeli: As reported last year on Rorate the Archbishop of Colombo in Sri Lanka, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, has restored in his archdiocese the practice of communion on the tongue only and while kneeling. Last month, on the Feast of … Continue reading
Honeybee Crisis Still Unsolved, Probably Effect of Pesticides
I have written on this persistent crisis in our Mancipia newsletter in 2007 and linked to other articles elsewhere on our website. Solutions have been proffered but have never gone beyond lab reports. Perhaps nature will take care of itself … Continue reading
Police Manual: ‘Do Not Mention Use of Cell Phone Technology’ to Public
Marshall Connolly, Catholic Online: Police can watch your every move via your cell phone. More importantly, the practice is becoming routine, even in non-emergency cases and there is virtually no oversight of the practice. Even small, rural departments are tapping … Continue reading
President Obama Confident SJC Will Uphold So-Called ‘Health Care’ Bill
LifeNews.com: President Barack Obama today, during a televised press conference, said in no uncertain terms that he doesn’t believe the Supreme Court will overturn Obamacare, the abortion funding and rationing law pro-life groups oppose. More on this here.
R. Cort Kirkwood on Buchanan’s Firing
(www.RemnantNewspaper.com) When the leftist MSNBC cable network fired Pat Buchanan as a commentator in February, the Beltway Right reacted in character. It focused mostly on the issue of “free speech;” i.e., that the left only wants free speech for its … Continue reading
‘Most’ and ‘Least’ Religious States: Gallup
It’s not our fault at SBC. We’re trying, but our state of New Hampshire is at the bottom of the list, along with our westward neighbor, Vermont. Mississippi gets top billing as “Most Religious State.” See the results at Gallup.
Homoactivists Press Case Against T-Shirt Co
(WND) A human rights official in Kentucky says it might be perfectly fine for a printing company run by “gays” to refuse to print anti-”gay” literature, but a Christian company refusing to print T-shirts for a “gay” event would not … Continue reading
Cuba Declares Good Friday a National Holiday
Catholic Culture: Acceding to a request by Pope Benedict, Cuba’s Communist government has declared Good Friday this year to be a national holiday. The government will later decide whether to make the holiday permanent. Read more here.
