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
Catholic Culture reports: Pope Paul VI planned to resign after reaching the age of 80, and was dissuaded from that step by Vatican officials only after his most trusted aide left the Roman Curia, according to a Vatican Insider report. … Continue reading
LifeSite News Steve Jalsevac: On Thursday I once again filmed and photographed Linda Gibbons being arrested for doing nothing more than peacefully trying to convince women entering an abortion clinic to not make the same mistake she herself made years … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: The Archdiocese of Chicago’s weekly gay and lesbian Mass celebrates and affirms participants’ “orientations and identities,” according to a notice posted in the Windy City Times. Read more here.
Catholic Culture: Chinese authorities have released a Catholic priest who had spent 4 months in prison in Hebei because of his refusal to join the government-backed Catholic Patriotic Association. But in Shandong, 4 other priests have been arrested for the … Continue reading
AsiaNews: The Israeli government has given final approval to build over 900 new homes for settlers in Har Homa, an area of occupied East Jerusalem. Read more here.
AsiaNews: An underground priest from the diocese of Xuanhua (Hebei) has been released after about four months. Local sources said that during this time he was abused and brainwashed to force him to join the Patriotic Association and reject his … Continue reading
Readers may recall that Saint Benedict Center had been embroiled in litigation surrounding our chapel project that we so enthusiastically announced over six years ago. Yes, I said “had been.” The litigation is over, and we won. Now we have … Continue reading
NYTimes’ Rich Sandomir: Jack McKeon’s baseball days begin in a pew. At 8 on Tuesday morning, the Florida Marlins’ manager attended Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, less than 12 hours after his team beat the Mets on a 10th-inning grand … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: A priest of the Mobile, Alabama archdiocese has been found dead, in what archdiocesan officials report was a suicide. More on this here.
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