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
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World Youth Day Could Unleash the Worst in Secularist Spain
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
Ireland’s Main Seminary at Maynooth Was Rife With Heresy, Feminism, and Immoral Indoctrination
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
Polygamy Law on Trial in British Columbia
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
Saudi Arabia: It May Be the Most Anti-Christian Country on Earth
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
Homosexual Activists Pushing Bill in California to Force Schools to Promote Their Agenda
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
22 Martyrs From Spanish Civil War, 1 From French Revolution, to be Beatified
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.
Publicly Opposed to Church’s Teaching on Moral Law and Parental Rights Caroline Kennedy to Speak at Dominican University
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
Cardinal Zen Tells Asia News Compromise Has Been Disastrous for the Church in China
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
3500 Catechumens to be Baptized in Hong Kong Diocese During Easter Vigil
Agenzia Fides: Faith is a gift from God; faith is built on Jesus; keep away from sin; bear witness to Jesus: these are the four recommendations of Bishop John Tong of Hong Kong, to the catechumens during Lent in view … Continue reading
New Head of Ukrainian Catholic Church Recalls the Past Generation’s Forty Three Years of Suffering for Papal Authority
Catholic News Service: Archbishop Shevchuk said the suffering — including imprisonment and martyrdom — endured by Ukrainian Catholics under the Soviet regime from 1946 to 1989 “was a sacrifice for communion with the See of Peter” and the Catholic Church. … Continue reading
His Paralyzed Leg Healed at Lourdes TV Repairman Walks 1000 Miles on Pilgrimage to Compostela
CatholicHerlad.co.uk: A man with a paralysed left leg has completed a 1,000-mile hike to Santiago de Compostela after being cured at Lourdes, it has been reported. Television repair man Serge François, 40, said he felt a warm glow spread down … Continue reading
Infections From Central Venous Catheters Kill 30,000 Americans a Year
I read this on Kansas Catholic website today. The info was taken from a Wall Street Journal interview with Dr. Peter Pronovost, medical director for Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Innovation in Quality Patient Care. You can read the summation … Continue reading
New Bishop’s Diocese Includes Island of Shangchuan Where S. Francis Xavier Died
Nearly 460 years after the great Jesuit missionary died off the coast of China, without having fulfilled his heart’s desire of preaching the gospel in this vast land, today the diocese of Jiangmen has 20,000 Catholics. Today’s consecration ceremony of … Continue reading
Fargo Bishop Lashes Out Against “Grave Scandal” of Giving Communion to Pro-Abortion Politicians
When bishops and priests are hesitant in exercising their authority, the “father of lies” takes hold of the hearts and minds of the faithful, Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo warned recently. “One must honestly ask, how many times and … Continue reading
