CNA reports: In time for the upcoming Respect Life Month of October, Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo, North Dakota presided over an annual Mass and led a procession over 700 people to a local abortion clinic last Sunday, encountering oppositional … Continue reading
Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my calves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come ye to the marriage (Matt. 22:4). Our conference is all ready. … Continue reading
The day after our pilgrims returned from their three day seventy-mile pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Eight North American Martyrs, Pope Benedict addressed the 2nd World Conference on the Pastoral Care of Pilgrimages and Shrines with enthusiastic words about … Continue reading
Catholic News Service: In June, Pope Benedict XVI announced he was establishing a major Vatican agency to deal with “new evangelization” in traditionally Christian countries. The pope’s initiative was seen as a bold stroke in the church’s ongoing effort to … Continue reading
Go Mike Sweeney and the Philadelphia Phillies! Catholic Online: After seventeen seasons in Major League Baseball, the five-time All Star has finally reached the playoffs for the first time. The Advisory Chairman of Catholic Athletes for Christ told Catholic Online: … Continue reading
It’s not hard to imagine the kind of trials these young men, being called to the priesthood today, have to endure. What is hard is to put oneself in their shoes and empathize. It must take great fortitude to wear … Continue reading
The religious foundress scheduled to be canonized on October 17 as Australia’s first saint was unjustly excommunicated by her bishop. So much has been known for a long time. It is claimed now that documents support the assertion that Blessed … Continue reading
And this right after the Holy Father’s visit. Archbishop Vincent Nichols went to say that “our passion” is to fight against poverty. Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark strongly disagrees with the Westminster Archbishop’s statements, which are recorded on LifeSite News … Continue reading
Elizabeth Lev has an interesting article in Zenit News on the events that reunited Italy as a kingdom in the second half of the nineteenth century and the role of the anti-Catholic freemason, Garibaldi, in wresting the Eternal City from … Continue reading
Catholic Online reports: By the very definition, a monastery is one of spiritual calm and contemplation. Inhabited by monks who eschew the outside world in its entirety, monasteries are places of quiet servitude. It’s not without certain irony that a … Continue reading
As this report comes in so does the Florida Appeals Court decision overturning the state’s ban on same sex couples’ adopting. CNA reports: The Secretary of State for Family Policy in Italy, Carlo Giovanardi, stated in an interview this week … Continue reading
CNA reports: Bernard-Henri Lévy, a well-known atheist associated with what is considered to be the European left, said in an interview that Catholicism is by far the most attacked religion in Europe. The prominent intellectual also noted it was unfortunate … Continue reading
Diogenes has the report for Catholic Culture. Here’s a clip of what the dean told Religious News Service: “A great majority of Catholics (once) thought of the church as outside of time altogether — that what they did on Sunday … Continue reading
Catholic Culture reports: Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson may have known years ago about the deadly risks of its birth control patch Ortho Evra, according to internal documents obtained by NBC News. More here.
LifeNews reports: After the New Jersey state Senate defeated an attempt to override the decision of Gov. Chris Christie to cut off state taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood abortion businesses, the first facility run by the national abortion giant is … Continue reading
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