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
A bill opposed by California’s Catholic bishops will be considered this afternoon before the state Senate’s Judiciary Committee. The bill, SB 48, would require that social science instruction in California schools include the contributions of homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender persons … Continue reading
Catholic Online reports: Twenty-two martyrs of the Spanish Civil War and a priest beheaded during the French Revolution will be declared “blessed” by the Church in coming months. More here.
Caroline Kennedy, a self-described Catholic who favors ‘abortion rights’ and same-sex ‘marriage,’ has been invited to speak next week at Dominican University of California in San Rafael. Kennedy is also an opponent of parental notification in cases when a minor … Continue reading
Asia News: Hong Kong (AsiaNews)-The Church in China is in a “disastrous state” because of the harshness of the regime, but also because a “triumvirate” (the Prefect of Propaganda Fide, one of his minions, and Fr Jeroom Heyndrickx, a Scheut … Continue reading
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