There are onnly about twenty underground bishops still living. All are over seventy, most in their eighties. During the Easter Vigil service last Saturday the most recent to die was Mgr. Peter Li Hongye, 91, bishop of Luoyang. He had … Continue reading
CNA reports: St. Mary Magdalen Regional School in Millville, N.J. will finish this academic year with more than a dozen additional Catholic students – but not because of a surge in enrollment. The increase is due to 13 of the … Continue reading
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
Catholic News Service has an alarming news item here. Scroll down to second entry.
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.
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