LifeSite News: The demand by the United Nations Secretary General that African countries abolish all legal prohibitions against homosexual activity has met with anger from one African Vatican prelate who said that it was “not our culture; it’s against our … Continue reading
USCCB report: The Senate’s 51-48 vote March 1 to table the bipartisan Respect for Rights of Conscience Act (S. 1467), sponsored by Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) and 37 other senators, impels the Church to strengthen its resolve to support religious … Continue reading
MSNBC: The Israeli public is champing at the bit for air strikes against Iran’s nuclear program right? Wrong. A new poll run by the University of Maryland’s Sadat Chair for Peace and Development Shibley Telhami was released as Israeli Prime … Continue reading
CNA reports: Cuban dissident Jose Daniel Ferrer said his commitment to fight for freedom in the country is inspired by the Gospels and the Catholic Church. “I have always believed we should be in the place God wanted us to … Continue reading
Jennie Stone, Live Action News and Opinion blog: . . . Obama showed his true agenda by pulling Medicaid from Texas. He would rather have thousands of low-income families struggling to obtain health care rather than see funding pulled and … Continue reading
CNA reports: Biographer Joseph Pearce says the famous South African poet Roy Campbell saw the Spanish Civil War as a religious conflict between Christianity and atheistic modernism. Read more here.
AsiaNews: Chinese authorities have announced a friendlier communication strategy to promote the country’s one-child policy, which allows couples to have only one child. According to some estimates, about 200 million abortions and post-natal murders were performed since the policy was … Continue reading
When I read this I was touched by the beauty of the story and the faith of the couple. Then this gem of a man appears out of the blue making the story even more resplendent. Here’s a clip: It … Continue reading
Roe v. Wade and the culture of death: LifeNews: 24-year-old Tiffany Gillespie was pregnant with her third child when she was shot to death by her boyfriend Aaron Fitzpatrick, according to a police report. The murder happened on February 16. … Continue reading
California Catholic Daily: On Saturday, Jan. 28, San Francisco’s Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption hosted an interfaith service and press conference in support of AB 1081, a measure challenging the federal “Secure Communities” program. More on this here.
LifeSiteNews: Under Alberta’s new Education Act, homeschoolers and faith-based schools will not be permitted to teach that homosexual acts are sinful as part of their academic program, says the spokesperson for Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk. Read more here.
Catholic Culture: Warning that the Church is being “despoiled of her institutions” as “freedom of conscience and of religion become a memory from a happier past,” Cardinal Francis George of Chicago observes that “the Catholic Church in the United States … Continue reading
Three homosexual women beat up a homosexual man in Massachusetts. Is it a “Hate Crime”? ACLU says it could be; the women’s lawyers say it can’t. Cases like this show the oddity of hate crime laws. Read about it, if … Continue reading
NEW YORK (USA Today) – Behind the mainstream Wall Street happy talk about more stable financial markets and an improving economy are grim warnings of tough times ahead from a small cadre of doomsayers who warn that the worst of … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: A group of liberal Catholic nuns has filed in amicus brief with the US Supreme Court in defense of the Obama administration’s health-care program. Read more here.
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