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
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
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
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
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
Catholic Culture: In a recent interview, the leading Franciscan in the Holy Land lamented the discrimination that Christians face in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Read more here.
Catholic Culture: Three Brazilian bishops– Bishop Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini of Guarulhos, Bishop Benedito Beni Dos Santos of Lorena, and Bishop Nelson Westrupp of Santo André– have received anonymous death threats after urging Catholics not to vote for Dilma Rousseff, the … Continue reading
CNA reports: The cause for the canonization of Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan was officially opened in Rome this week. The cardinal, who suffered for years in Vietnamese prisons without trial, was exiled from his homeland and is remembered for … Continue reading
Bishop David Monroe of Kamloops (British Columbia) is in serious condition after a man brutally beat him in the cathedral rectory on the evening of October 22. The suspect had escaped from a psychiatric ward earlier in the day and … Continue reading
Catholic Culture: Contributions to the University of Notre Dame fell by over $120 million during the fiscal year in which President Barack Obama was awarded an honorary degree. Several dozen bishops criticized the university’s decision during the months preceding the … Continue reading
We are grateful to David Hartline writing for The American Catholic for noting this historic occasion. The year was 1935: Father Solanus Casey was 65, while Brother Andre was 90. Brother Andre had heard of Father Solanus Casey and while … Continue reading
In a seminar in Ottawa on the subject “Faith in the Public Square” Archbishop Chaput stressed our mission to get back on track and make up for our failure to be public witnesses for Christ: “Christians in my country and … Continue reading
Catholic Culture reports: Two Lebanese Catholic prelates questioned the feasibility of dialogue with Islam during discussions on October 21 at the Synod of Bishops. Read more here.
Named only days ago as cardinal, Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke will be created cardinal in a consistory on November 20 of this year. Toward the end of a paper he presented for the October 9 World Prayer Congress for Life … Continue reading
I came across a link to an article by Joanna in Catholic Phoenix which gives the history of the famous picture that we are all so familiar with from Marian prayer cards of a young Madonna and Child. It was … Continue reading
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