This is slightly dated, but noteworthy: “Traditional Catholicism Is Winning” by ANNE HENDERSHOTT AND CHRISTOPHER WHITE. Excerpt: This aging generation of progressives continues to lobby church leaders to change Catholic teachings on reproductive rights, same-sex marriage and women’s ordination. But … Continue reading
This arrived today, from a friend: “100 years ago today, the last Mass was said on the Titanic, which happened to be Low Sunday, tomorrow’s Mass.” The Encyclopedia Titanica has an entry on Father Byles, the priest who offered the … Continue reading
(Rorate Caeli) From major French daily Le Figaro, in an article signed by its main religion correspondent, Jean-Marie Guénois. Rome and Écône on the verge of reaching an agreement by Jean-Marie Guénois Updated on April 13, 2012 20:37 (1837 GMT)| … Continue reading
(Vatican Insider) A major survey of the views of Irish Catholics reveals a strong divergence from Roman Catholic teaching on such issues as sexual morality, celibacy, women’s ordination, and homosexuality. Read more, in painful detail…
LifeSite News: Coming only a few days after Easter, the resignation of Father Gerhard Swierzek, the pastor of a parish in the Archdiocese of Vienna, has been hailed by homosexualist activists in the Catholic Church as a victory. Fr. Swierzek … Continue reading
In reading the quotes from this news clip I see that there is no addressee named to whom these forty “prayers” are directed. So, I looked up the referenced promoter of the prayers, Faith Aloud, and, sure enough, the prayers … Continue reading
side from celebrating the joys of Easter this Sunday past, the usus antiquior community in Hong Kong were also celebrating their 10th year as a community, marked by a Solemn Pontifical Mass at St. Teresa’s church, and celebrated by their … Continue reading
In the ultimate political/cultural gaffe in heavily Cuban Miami, the raw and ribald Ozzie Guillen created a firestorm of controversy when he praised Fidel Castro. The colorful character is a Santeria adept, that is, a pagan. The LA Times covered … Continue reading
‘Materially and formally’ cooperating with sin: Cardinal Burke explains why Catholic employers can’t obey Obama administration’s contraception mandate. See California Catholic Daily.
By posting this news item I will probably get a few critical comments, especially with the CNA link and the use of the term “full communion” for the conversion of baptized Protestants. So, let me state simply that I do … Continue reading
CNA: The Cuban Commission on Human Rights reported that 43 dissidents have been detained by the Communist government in a new wave of repression launched on April 2 in the city of Santiago. Read more here.
CNA: Officials at the Pontifical Academy for Life are offering two different and contrasting explanations for canceling a controversial summit that would have included embryonic stem cell researchers. Read full article here.
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.
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
(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
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