This is a clip from the Holy Fathers Holy Thursday sermon: “We too, all of us, need to learn again to accept God and Jesus Christ as he is, and not the way we want him to be,” the Pope … Continue reading
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Calabria Mob Very Upset That Bishop Barred Them From Carrying Our Lady’s Statue in Easter Procession
La Stampa: Last year, in this small Italian village in the southern region of Calabria, someone fired a warning shot through the front door of the local priest of the Congregation of the Holy Rosary parish. Why was the clergyman … Continue reading
Bishop of Springfield IL Brings Back St. Michael Prayer After Mass
Servant and Steward: His Excellency the Most Reverend Thomas John Paprocki, Bishop of Springfield in Illinois, has authorized the public recitation of the Prayer to St. Michael the Archangel – originally composed by the Holy Father Pope Leo XIII in 1886 – following the dismissal … Continue reading
Massachusetts Taxpayer Funded Website Counsels Teens on How Easy It Is to Get an Abortion
BostonHerald.com: A state-funded sex education Web site that tells teens an abortion is “much easier than it sounds” has drawn fire from outraged pro-lifers who say mariatalks.com is glossing over ugly truths, steering teens toward the controversial procedure and counseling … Continue reading
Not Excommunicated?
CNA reports: The Archdiocese of Barcelona in Spain confirmed April 18 that Father Manuel Pousa was not automatically excommunicated after admitting to paying for two abortions. Read more here.
Police Warn Scotland Cardinal to Be On Watch for Letter Bombs From Protestant Football Fans
More astounding news from the pits of hellish lunacy. Catholic Culture: Police in Scotland have warned Cardinal Keith O’Brien that he may be a target of a letter-bomb campaign aimed at supporters of Celtic, a Glasgow-based football team. Fans of … Continue reading
34,000 Suicides Every Year in United States
Catholic News Service has an alarming news item here. Scroll down to second entry.
Arsonist Sets Sacristy on Fire in Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia Basilica
AP Around 1,700 people were evacuated from one of Spain’s most popular tourist attractions on Tuesday, after a suspected arsonist started a small fire inside Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica. more on this here.
Astounding Story: Japanese Family of Ten to be Baptized Catholics During Easter Vigil
Yakuza translates “mafia.” Now read on. UCANews: When Takayuki Oku was in his second year of junior high school in Yamagata City, about 290km north of Tokyo, and working a part-time job as a newspaper delivery boy, he met a … Continue reading
Latest Vatican Communiqué to China Nothing New, Disappoints Faithful
UCANews: The latest communiqué of the Vatican’s Commission on the Church in China has mostly fallen flat with the faithful on the mainland, although some see hopeful signs. An “open” community bishop said the most important point in the document … Continue reading
Philippine President Prefers Excommunication Rather Than Opposing Bill to Fund Contraceptives
Catholic News Service: Philippine President Benigno Aquino said he is willing to risk excommunication from the Catholic Church rather than scrap the so-called Responsible Parenthood Bill, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News. “I remain committed to pushing for … Continue reading
Vatican Commission Protests Chinese Government’s Interference in Church’s Affairs
Catholic News Service: The commission’s message began by noting the “general climate of disorientation and anxiety about the future” of the church in China, following recent setbacks in church-state relations. It said that given the numerous vacant dioceses in China, … Continue reading
Latest in a String of Attacks on Catholic Churches in California: Definitely Arson
California Catholic News: “The investigators have been quite definitive to me, this was very definitely a deliberate act,” Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, told the Los Angeles Times. Full report is here.
God’s Rights Come First: Evil Art Destroyed
Bravo et merci beaucoup to the French Catholic youths, who concluded that God’s rights come before someone’s blasphemous and sacrilegious “freedom of expression.” From CWN: Armed with hammers and screwdrivers, four protestors in Avignon destroyed a blasphemous 1987 photograph of … Continue reading
Infant Survives With Minor Injuries After Being Sucked By Twister From Arms of Babysitter
A few amazing survival stories here after killer tornadoes take 45 lives in the south.