California Catholic news: On Friday, April 15, students participating in the “Day of Silence” will wear pro-homosexuality T-shirts, buttons, and stickers, refuse to answer teachers’ questions in classrooms, make it difficult for other students to concentrate, and generally take over … Continue reading
The Catholic Thing: Pope Pius X is often criticized because in 1910 he demanded that all priests take an anti-modernist oath. It’s hardly known that in 1905 he ordered all priests around the world to do something else, perhaps even … Continue reading
The Fundamentalists accuse English speaking Catholics of invoking some German goddess of Spring named “Oestre” in calling the Feast of the Resurrection “Easter.” This is, of course, not true. In Christian England the word “Easter” was always used in reference … Continue reading
Here’s a great story about a priest and a teaching sister who died trying to rescue the Blessed Sacrament from a church fire in 1967.
Now that’s a career politician for you! LifeNews: The office of Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey, who claims to be a pro-life Democrat, has confirmed he will not vote for an amendment to de-fund the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Read more … Continue reading
AsiaNews: Since last January, at least two underground priests (in communion with the Pope), from Xuanhua dioceses (Hebei), near Beijing, have been detained and badly beaten up. They are among at least 20 underground priests in Xuanhua and Xiwanzi dioceses … Continue reading
After reading about another horrific killing of school children, this time in Brazil, by a deranged gunmen, who is so blind as to deny that the spread of satanism through movies, books, and “music” is one of the immediate causes. … Continue reading
CNA reports: During his recent visit to Washington, D.C., Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun told reporters that mistakes and misunderstandings on the part of key Vatican officials, and a desire for “compromise at any cost,” have undermined Pope Benedict’s intentions for … Continue reading
Fathers for Good: As he begins his 12th season as a major league pitcher, Trever Miller is familiar with baseball’s performance measurements: earned run average, strikeout-walk ratio, winning percentage, saves and a dozen other metrics. A lanky lefty reliever with … Continue reading
National Catholic Register: [A] new report, “A Scandalous Relationship: Catholic Colleges and Planned Parenthood”, by the Manassas, Va.-based Cardinal Newman Society, reveals more than 150 current and past connections between Catholic colleges and universities and Planned Parenthood. Read full article … Continue reading
LifeNews: On March 21, family planning officials entered the home of Xu Shuaishuai to seize his sister for a forced sterilization. Unable to find her, they beat Xu’s father and when Xu defended his father from the attack, one of … Continue reading
George Weigel Column from the Denver Archdiocesan Paper, April 6, 2011: In the fall of 2007, I spent a week in Spain, giving lectures, meeting with Spanish Catholic leaders, and making a hair-raising climb up several hundred scaffolding stairs to … Continue reading
Father Zuhldorf’s Blog post has a shocking article written by some indignant seminarians who attended Maynooth. Seminaries in the U.S. were no better, but I had naively thought things were a bit better in Ireland. The Irish seminarians I knew … Continue reading
Prescinding from the religious issue, there are so many other common sense reasons why any civilized society should outlaw polygamy for the common good. Some of those reasons — reasons I would never have thought of, since I don’t know … Continue reading
Zenit News: Saudi Arabia is considered holy ground by the Muslim majority who live there. Hence, Christians and even Muslims of other sects, face severe restrictions. Christians make up only about 3% of the population, but they have no churches … Continue reading
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