UCANews: Security officials have detained a number of underground Church leaders from Tianshui diocese in northwestern Gansu province during the weekend. They include diocesan administrator Father John Baptist Wang Ruohan; retired Bishop Casmir Wang Milu; Father John Wang Ruowang; as … Continue reading
Rorate Caeli: None of this (really, not a single point) is news to our readers – but, since we like to keep a running record of reports, this is what Vaticanist Andrea Tornielli mentions now: Continue reading here.
This is in one day. Philly.com: Six people were injured during a shootout – one critically – at a local league basketball game attended by 500 people in the city’s Kingsessing section Monday night, police said. More on this here. … Continue reading
LifeNews: Vice-President Joe Biden is in China to attempt to revive the financial image of the United States after a first-ever downgrade in its financial rating. In attempting to explain some of the financial concerns the U.S. faces, Biden failed … Continue reading
CNA reports: Hollywood actor Matt Marsden said that young Catholics need to get involved in movie-making and other artistic ventures if they want to change the culture. Full report is here.
CNA reports: Pope Benedict XVI has honored the 16th century Spanish priest St. John of Avila by naming him the 34th Doctor of the Catholic Church. Read more here.
Catholic Culture: On the eve of Pope Benedict’s arrival in Madrid, riot police clashed with thousands of protestors, some of whom were chanting “God yes, Church no” and “we are not the Pope’s youth.” Eight protestors were arrested, and nine … Continue reading
CBCP News: An exorcist has led a ritual outside the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Sunday to ask for God’s forgiveness for those who “dishonored the image of Christ.” Fr. Michelle Joe Zerrudo of the Diocese of Cubao said … Continue reading
More than one hundred thousand Catholic devotees, tourists and local residents from different places in the country flooded the historic Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion, here, to celebrate the feast of the solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin … Continue reading
Phil Lawler responds on Catholic Culture: The most obvious outcome of the China’s one-child policy, coupled with the deeply-ingrained desire for male children, has been the routine destruction of Chinese girls in the womb. The UN estimates that 43 million … Continue reading
AsiaNews: At least 2 thousand faithful of Ho Chi Minh City have celebrated a mass and prayed for the Catholics arrested by Vietnamese police during raids in recent weeks in the Diocese of Vinh and Thanh Hoa (see AsiaNews 08 … Continue reading
Vatican Insider: According to a Vatican Radio broadcast, the Archdiocese and the City of Paris will be welcoming approximately 150 thousand worshipers, pilgrims and visitors from across the world, to celebrate the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the … Continue reading
Interesting. Hopefully it is so. It is certainly true among young married Catholics who attend the traditional Latin Mass. Catholic Culture: Anna Williams, a USA Today editorial intern, notes that practicing Catholics under the age of 30 “are spearheading a … Continue reading
CatholicOnline: Lucy Hussey-Bergonzi was 13 years old when she collapsed with a brain hemorrhage in February of 2009. At the hospital, her parents called for a Catholic priest to baptize her before she died. As the holy water touched her … Continue reading
So, the maxim, “the corruption of the best is the worst,” proves true again — this time, with the Sulpicians of Montreal, pathetically so. Montreal would have never survived were it not for the Sulpician priests who came to the … Continue reading
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