Catholic Culture reports: “Not so long ago, we were warned that rising global population would inevitably bring world famine,” writes Phillip Longman in the November 2010 issue of Foreign Policy. “Because of the continuing fall in birth rates, humans will … Continue reading
I give thanks for the grace of being present when the Holy Father declared my patron, Brother André Bessette, CSC, to be a Saint. It happened in St. Peter’s Square this very morning. Thanks to the good graces of a … Continue reading
If there were many persons who didn’t watch on October 13 the television coverage from Chile of the rescue of the 33 miners who had been trapped below ground for more than two months, they missed some of the most … Continue reading
Here’s a clip from Catholic Culture website report: The “perennial discipline of the Church [has] prohibited the giving of Holy Communion or the granting of a Church funeral to those who persist after admonition in the grave violation of the … Continue reading
I don’t know of anything more indicative of Protestantism’s theology of “protest” than crosses without the Crucified, that and their rather ironic fear of the Sign of the Cross, which goes back to apostolic times. The statement below from the … Continue reading
All friends and supporters of Saint Benedict Center are hereby informed that Father David Phillipson has been appointed to serve at Saint Benedict Center, Richmond. Father has been granted faculties by the Bishop of Manchester to offer Mass and hear … Continue reading
The Christian Institute: International singing sensation Susan Boyle has revealed that she could have been aborted as a baby in her mother’s womb if her mum had followed doctors’ advice. Read more here.
Speaking of deacons, one blogger noted on Deacon Greg Kandra’s The Deacon’s Bench that the mining company for which the thirty-three men worked is called San Esteban (St. Stephen), the first martyr and a deacon. Too, Greg Hall, the engineer … Continue reading
Whispers in the Loggia’s Rocco Palmo: An auxiliary bishop of Chicago since 2003, Gustavo García-Siller has largely been a stealth figure on the wider scene, keeping a remarkably low profile while tending an 82-parish vicariate of the Windy City archdiocese, … Continue reading
Catholic Culture reports: Violence against Christian girls is “unfortunately common” in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, according to Father Khalid Rashid Asi, vicar general of the Diocese of Faisalabad. Lubna Masih, 12, was going to a store to buy milk … Continue reading
LifeNews.com: The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has apologized for a publishing a poem celebrating embryonic stem cell research that a pro-life legal group said was blasphemous. The institute is the agency funded by $3 billion in taxpayer funds, most … Continue reading
The Holy Father’s twenty minute address to the Mid East Synod gathered in Rome was unscripted and right from the heart. In particular he cited the greed of anonymous financial oligarchs who enslave men and who have a destructive power … Continue reading
Catholic Online: Liu Xiaobo, this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has been amply “rewarded” by his native China with imprisonment on political dissident charges. Now, his wife, Liu Xia has been put under house arrest. In a posting … Continue reading
MSNBC.com reports: Mario Gomez, 63, the oldest to be trapped underground and who suffers from silicosis, a lung disease common to miners. He hugged his wife, Lilian Ramirez, who fears he will return to mining, even after this ordeal, and … Continue reading
Catholic Culture reports: A US district judge in California has declared that the 1993 federal law on gays in the military– popularly known as the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy– is unconstitutional. Full report with link here.
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