The Vatican is investigating whether the healing of a boy in Washington in 2006 is a miracle attributable to the intercession of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha. More on this here.
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Bomb Attack After Mass Easter Sunday Outside Bagdad Church Wounds Seven
Catholic Culture Reports: A bomb exploded outside Sacred Heart Parish in Baghdad following Mass on Easter Sunday, wounding seven. “Our life in Iraq is full of fear,” said Father Hanna Saad Sirop, a Chaldean Catholic priest and 2006 kidnapping victim. … Continue reading
Saints Chrysanthus and Daria: Relics Authenticated
The UK’s Daily Mail reports on a National Geographic Society study of bones found in northern Italy. Two skeletons discovered in a crypt in an Italian cathedral are those of Christian saints who were martyred in ancient Rome, experts have … Continue reading
Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham Grows to 1000 Converts, 60 Clergymen
CNS reports: The first personal ordinariate created for former Anglicans who decided to enter the Catholic Church will reach almost 1,000 by the end of the Easter Vigil. The count of people entering the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of … Continue reading
Ex Anglican Minister, Father of Nine, Enters Church Yesterday With Catholic Wife As Confirmation Sponsor
Catholic News Service: It’s a brave decision for the Ian Hellyer to give up his job when he has to provide for eight children and his wife is pregnant with the couple’s ninth child. But Hellyer is losing no sleep … Continue reading
Pope Speaks of Union in the Eucharist and Christ “Binding” Himself to the Church and Her Ministers
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
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
