Rorate Caeli: The semi-official daily of the Church in France, La Croix, reported yesterday that the procedure for the proclamation of Saint John of AvilaDoctor of the Church is all but completed. More on this here.
Category: News
New Mandate From HHS Demands All Private Insurers Cover Contraception
Catholic Culture: Beginning in August 2012, all private insurers must provide women with coverage for FDA-approved contraception–including sterilization and contraceptives that have an abortifacient effect–under a mandate announced on August 1 by the US Department of Health and Human Services … Continue reading
One Fourth of Somalia’s 9.1 Million People Have Left Homes in Search of Food
Catholic Culture: One fourth of Somalia’s 9.1 million people have left their homes in search of food, according to a report prepared by Caritas Somalia. Read more here.
For Third Time Pope Calls Upon All Nations to Send Aid to East Africa
Catholic Culture: For the 3rd consecutive week, Pope Benedict XVI used his Sunday audience on July 31 to call the world’s attention to a devastating famine in the Horn of Africa. Read full appeal here.
SPLC Attacks Protestant Pro-Family Organizaions As Hate Groups
Still parading as a respectable civil rights organization, the fundraising syndicate known as the Southern Poverty Law Center has entered Evangelical Protestant pro-family groups onto their rosters of hateful people. Read about it at Human Events.
In NYC Sisters of Life Work to Help Unwed Pregnant Mothers
William McGowan of The Wall Street Journal: ‘Safe, legal and rare” has long been the pro-choice mantra, but these days it applies less and less to the reality of abortion. In New York City, officials reported this year that 41% … Continue reading
She Refused to Abort Her Second Baby: Fired, Sent to Prison and Tortured
AsiaNews: Dissident Mao Hengfeng was released from a re-education-through-labour camp yesterday, a month before the end of her 18-month sentence. Her husband Wu Xuewei said she endured physical and moral torture whilst in prison. Read full report here.
10,000 Rally in NYC in Support of True Marriage
LifeSite News: New York, NY, July 26, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – This past Sunday, an estimated nearly 10,000 people participated in a New York City rally and march in support of the traditional definition of marriage. The rally, which was organized … Continue reading
Head of Congregation for Divine Worship Says Entire Church Should Kneel for Communion
CNA: Spanish Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera recently recommended that Catholics receive Communion on the tongue, while kneeling. “It is to simply know that we are before God himself and that He came to us and that we are undeserving,” the … Continue reading
Self-Absorbed Societies Generate Collective Psychoses and Medical Alarmism
Catholic Culture: An Italian neonatologist known for his staunch defense of the unborn believes that a “self-sufficient culture that is diffident towards others” has developed a “tendency towards panic” in the past decade. Read more here.
Tomb of St. Philip the Apostle Discovered in Turkey
Note that this is only the tomb of the Apostle. His relics, together with those of St. James the Less, are kept in the Basilica of the Holy Apostles in Rome. World Bulletin: The tomb of St. Philip the Apostle, … Continue reading
Priest Beaten by Mad Liberal for Offering Traditional Latin Mass
Rorate Caeli: “You have been tough, but we will smash your head. Signed, Your friend Satan”. That was one of several threatening messages sent to Father Hernán García Pardo, parish priest of San Michele, in Ronta [Mugello region of the … Continue reading
Tribute to Sister Mary Anastasia Quinn Heroic Nurse of the Civil War
There is a book titled Angels of the Battlefield that relates the incredible stories of the Sisters of Charity in ministering to the wounded of both sides of this devastating war between the states. It is one of the most … Continue reading
China and the Pope: ‘It’s War’ Says Cardinal Zen
The Chinese Communist government has once again boldly promoted itself as the ultimate master of all things Chinese, including mainland religious affairs, with the ordering of three illicit consecrations (since November, 2010) of bishops having no papal mandate. The Chinese … Continue reading
Omaha Police Officers Find Strength in Prayer and Sacraments
CNA has a great article here by Joe Ruff. It makes one appreciate even more the stress good policemen go through and the extra help they receive from God to help themselves and others. Driving to the autopsy of an … Continue reading
