If there were many persons who didn’t watch on October 13 the television coverage from Chile of the rescue of the 33 miners who had been trapped below ground for more than two months, they missed some of the most … Continue reading
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Archbishop Burke Delivers Critical and Uncompromising Speech to HLI Gathering
Here’s a clip from Catholic Culture website report: The “perennial discipline of the Church [has] prohibited the giving of Holy Communion or the granting of a Church funeral to those who persist after admonition in the grave violation of the … Continue reading
Evangelicals Support European Union’s Ban of Crucifixes in Public Schools
I don’t know of anything more indicative of Protestantism’s theology of “protest” than crosses without the Crucified, that and their rather ironic fear of the Sign of the Cross, which goes back to apostolic times. The statement below from the … Continue reading
Very Good News: a New Priest for SBC
All friends and supporters of Saint Benedict Center are hereby informed that Father David Phillipson has been appointed to serve at Saint Benedict Center, Richmond. Father has been granted faculties by the Bishop of Manchester to offer Mass and hear … Continue reading
Susan Boyle’s Mother Advised by Doctors to Have Her Aborted Due to Problem Pregnancy
The Christian Institute: International singing sensation Susan Boyle has revealed that she could have been aborted as a baby in her mother’s womb if her mum had followed doctors’ advice. Read more here.
St. Lawrence the Deacon Martyr Patron of Miners: Rescue Was Called Operacion San Lorenzo
Speaking of deacons, one blogger noted on Deacon Greg Kandra’s The Deacon’s Bench that the mining company for which the thirty-three men worked is called San Esteban (St. Stephen), the first martyr and a deacon. Too, Greg Hall, the engineer … Continue reading
53 Year-Old Bishop Gustavo García-Siller Likely to Be Next Archbishop of San Antonio
Whispers in the Loggia’s Rocco Palmo: An auxiliary bishop of Chicago since 2003, Gustavo García-Siller has largely been a stealth figure on the wider scene, keeping a remarkably low profile while tending an 82-parish vicariate of the Windy City archdiocese, … Continue reading
Young Pakistani Men Target Christian Girls for Abuse and Murder With Impunity
Catholic Culture reports: Violence against Christian girls is “unfortunately common” in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, according to Father Khalid Rashid Asi, vicar general of the Diocese of Faisalabad. Lubna Masih, 12, was going to a store to buy milk … Continue reading
Institute Pushing Embryonic Stem Cell Research Apologizes for Posting Blasphemous Poem
LifeNews.com: The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has apologized for a publishing a poem celebrating embryonic stem cell research that a pro-life legal group said was blasphemous. The institute is the agency funded by $3 billion in taxpayer funds, most … Continue reading
Pope Tells Synod Fathers Today’s False Gods Must Fall and It May Take Martyrs
The Holy Father’s twenty minute address to the Mid East Synod gathered in Rome was unscripted and right from the heart. In particular he cited the greed of anonymous financial oligarchs who enslave men and who have a destructive power … Continue reading
Wife of Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Winner Put Under House Arrest
Catholic Online: Liu Xiaobo, this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has been amply “rewarded” by his native China with imprisonment on political dissident charges. Now, his wife, Liu Xia has been put under house arrest. In a posting … Continue reading
Thirty-Three Trapped Miners Being Rescued One by One After 69 Days Underground
MSNBC.com reports: Mario Gomez, 63, the oldest to be trapped underground and who suffers from silicosis, a lung disease common to miners. He hugged his wife, Lilian Ramirez, who fears he will return to mining, even after this ordeal, and … Continue reading
Activist Judge in California Declares Ban on Open Homosexuality in Military Unconstitutional
Catholic Culture reports: A US district judge in California has declared that the 1993 federal law on gays in the military– popularly known as the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy– is unconstitutional. Full report with link here.
Playing God Gets Even Stranger
My Fox New York: A healthy baby boy was born from an embryo frozen for almost 20 years in what was hailed Sunday as scientific breakthrough that could allow women to start families much later in life. Read more here.
Original Michaelangelo Pieta Masterpiece in Buffalo NY Home? Seems So!
Catholic Online: The Kober family in Buffalo, New York had an impressive painting on their wall that they nicknamed “The Mike.” Word had it that the painting, depicting Mary and Jesus was an original work by Michelangelo. A tennis ball … Continue reading
