Catholic Culture reports: Pope Benedict XVI has summoned the members of the College of Cardinals to a special consistory, for a discussion of liturgy, religious freedom, and the sex-abuse scandal. Read more here.
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Five Anglican Bishops Set to Enter Catholic Church
Catholic Culture reports: Five Anglican bishops will leave the Church of England and enter the ordinariate envisioned by Pope Benedict’s apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus. Read more here.
Al Qaeda in Iraq Threatens to Make Rivers of Blood of Christians
Calling the pope “the hallucinating tyrant of the Vatican” the Islamic State of Iraq website spewed forth threats of “destruction” upon Christians and all others who do not join their jihad. Catholic Online reports: Catholics, other Christians, other people of … Continue reading
Catholics Persecuted in Vietnam, One Beaten to Death in Prison
Catholic Online: In what was clearly a “kangaroo court”, six faithful Catholics, not even allowed to have lawyers, were convicted of causing social disturbance and sentenced by the “People’s Court” of Cam Le district, South Central Vietnam on Oct 27. … Continue reading
New Speaker of the House Will Be John Boehner, Devout Pro-Life Catholic
Catholic Online: The new Speaker of the House will be John Boehner of Ohio. He is a faithful Catholic who fully understands the teaching of his Church and has earned a consistent 100% Pro-Life score from the National Right to … Continue reading
Iraqi Catholic Priest Believes Attack Was Terrorist Response to Mid-East Synod Petition for Peace
Father Safaa Habash: “The Synod of Bishops called on the Christians and Muslims to come together to make a dialogue, and to open bridges between each community,” the Iraqi-born, Michigan-based Syriac Catholic priest recounted. “But those people,” he said in … Continue reading
Write-Up of our October Conference
The theme of the Saint Benedict Center 2010 conference was “The Romance of Wisdom.” The talks are now available on CD, downloadable MP3, and DVD. Each of the nine speakers approached the theme from his own personal perspective, all together … Continue reading
Holy Father’s November Prayer Intentions
Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for November is: “That victims of drugs or of other dependence may, thanks to the support of the Christian community, find in the power of our saving God strength for a radical life-change”. His mission … Continue reading
17 Aborted Babies Found in Michigan Abortion Mill Dumpster
Catholic Online reports: Throwing aborted babies in the trash: Under current MI law abortion mills can place aborted babies and biohazardous waste in the trash as long as they’re dipped in formaldehyde beforehand … Deacon Fournier has a horrifying article … Continue reading
Cardinal Addresses 80,000 Youth on Pilgrimage to Shrine of Chile’s First Saint
Reading good news like this restores one’s hope for the future of the Church in America. Where but in South America could you find 80,000 young people making a seventeen mile pilgrimage to the shrine of a saint? Viva Cristo … Continue reading
Amnesty International Petitioning Peruvian Government to Legalize Abortion
I guess I’ve been in the dark on this one. I knew AI was more interested in getting leftist revolutionaries out of prisons than anti-Communists, although sometimes the organization did oppose certain regimes that deserved opposition, but I never realized … Continue reading
More Nuns Over 90 Than Under 60 in US, New Vocations Drawn to Orders Living Traditional Life
Catholic Culture reports: In an interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review Online, Mother Mary Clare Millea offers an update on the apostolic visitation of active women religious in the United States. “My task as visitator is to note … Continue reading
The Ultimate Deception in the War Against the Pre-Born Babies: A Killer Pragmatism That Doesn’t Work
Life News.com: The president of Planned Parenthood appeared on the Bill Press radio show today with an unconventional way for the government to save money. By sending more taxpayer dollars to the abortion business to pay for birth control, Planned … Continue reading
Argentinian Archbishop Attacks Imperialistic UN and Satellite Orgs for Conspiracy in Undermining Natural Law
California Catholic News: The archbishop said these ideas are part of a global plan that is based at “the United Nations and a series of its satellite organizations.” He said huge amounts of money are behind the attempts to change … Continue reading
Anti-Communist Political Prisoners in Cuba Are Being Freed If They Go to Spain
CNA reports: The Archdiocese of Havana has announced that five more political prisoners from Cuba will soon be released by the country’s government and sent to Spain. The prisoner releases are the result of an ongoing mediation effort being carried … Continue reading
