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
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The Unjust Excommunication of Bl. Mary McKillop
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
Top UK Bishop Tells BBC English Bishops Purposely Did Not Condemn Homosexual Civil Unions
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
140th Anniversary of the Fall of Papal Rome
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
Some Wyoming Ranchers Don’t Want Monks for Neighbors, Oppose Building
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
Italian Official Links Increase in Child Trafficking With Homosexual Adoptions
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
Prominent European Atheist Deplores Attacks on Pope and Catholicism
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
Dean of BC School of Theology Doesn’t Know What the Mass Is Or Pope’s Nationality
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
Johnson and Johnson Accused of Selling Birth Control Patch That Company Knew Could Kill User
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.
Measure Fails to Override NJ Governor’s Veto of Funding Planned Parenthood
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
Trapped Chilean Miners to Receive Statue of Our Lady From Youth Ministry in Uruguay
EWTN News: Youth ministry leaders in Uruguay sent a statue of Our Lady of the 33 to the Chilean miners trapped in the San Jose Mine in order to give them hope “during these difficult times.” Read more here.
President of Vatican Bank Denies Any Wrongdoing, Feels “Bitterness and Humiliation”
National Catholic Register cites from today’s Il Giornale interview: Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the president of the Vatican Bank, has strongly denied allegations the bank broke anti-money laundering rules and sees news of the investigation into him and the bank as … Continue reading
Did the European Union Initiate the Investigation into the Vatican Bank?
Robert Moynihan, owner of Inside the Vatican magazine, sends out periodic news items in the form of letters from Rome. The following discovery he made concerning news of the investigation and the NY Times caught my attention: An Odd Deletion? … Continue reading
Cardinal Turkson Blasts Millenium Goal to Eliminate the Poor Through Population Control
In a powerful address given before international heads of state in a New York summit on Millenium Development Goals the Cardinal from Ghana minced no words as to the nefarious goals of this pretended anti-poverty organization. Here’s a clip from … Continue reading
Republic of Ireland Bans Pro-Life Commercial
Why? Because the ad told the truth; it related a fact that everyone knows and no one would deny. But the truth makes pro-abortion people uncomfortable, so ban it, ban the fact. They don’t want to see or read what … Continue reading
