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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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
Philippine President Prefers Excommunication Rather Than Opposing Bill to Fund Contraceptives
Catholic News Service: Philippine President Benigno Aquino said he is willing to risk excommunication from the Catholic Church rather than scrap the so-called Responsible Parenthood Bill, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News. “I remain committed to pushing for … Continue reading
Vatican Commission Protests Chinese Government’s Interference in Church’s Affairs
Catholic News Service: The commission’s message began by noting the “general climate of disorientation and anxiety about the future” of the church in China, following recent setbacks in church-state relations. It said that given the numerous vacant dioceses in China, … Continue reading
Latest in a String of Attacks on Catholic Churches in California: Definitely Arson
California Catholic News: “The investigators have been quite definitive to me, this was very definitely a deliberate act,” Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, told the Los Angeles Times. Full report is here.
God’s Rights Come First: Evil Art Destroyed
Bravo et merci beaucoup to the French Catholic youths, who concluded that God’s rights come before someone’s blasphemous and sacrilegious “freedom of expression.” From CWN: Armed with hammers and screwdrivers, four protestors in Avignon destroyed a blasphemous 1987 photograph of … Continue reading
Infant Survives With Minor Injuries After Being Sucked By Twister From Arms of Babysitter
A few amazing survival stories here after killer tornadoes take 45 lives in the south.
More Than 50,000 Christians in North Korea Are in Prison Or Labor Camps for Practicing Their Faith
Agenzia Fides: Human rights trampled and denied freedom of religion, more than 50 thousand Christians in prison camps for their faith, victims of a judicial system based strictly on ideology of the regime: this is the picture of the situation … Continue reading
Carlistas: Real Catholics Facing the Enemy
We’ve mentioned our Spanish brothers in the Traditionalist Carlist Communion. They are currently gathering to plan their resistance to acts of sacrilege and blasphemy such as what we’ve recently reported. God bless them! We are encouraging our members and supporters … Continue reading
Jesuit Georgetown Alumni Hire Pro-Abortion Pelosi to Speak, $125 a Plate
California Catholic News: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who describes herself as “an ardent, practicing Catholic” but persists in her support of abortion, embryonic stem cell research and same-sex marriage, will be the featured guest at an April 30 luncheon for … Continue reading
Homosexual Activists Get Their Day of Silence Friday in California Public Schools
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
St. Pius X Ordered All Parish Priests to Spend 1 Hour Every Sunday Catechizing Children
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
Seattle School Bans Term “Easter Egg,” New PC Label Is “Spring Sphere”
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
New York State’s Modern Day Martyrs of the Eucharist
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.
