CNA reports: Catholic leaders have spoken out in a dispute in Ottawa over whether an explicit sex education curriculum for the Province of Ontario is required of Catholic and public schools. Defending the rights of Catholic schools to teach their … Continue reading
Phil Lawler comments for Catholic Culture: Jeffrey Anderson is suing the Pope. It’s an outlandish case– not only because the facts don’t support Anderson’s claim that the Pope protected abusive priests, but also because the Roman Pontiff, as a sovereign … Continue reading
A priest in Genoa has accused Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of sacrilege after he received Holy Communion during a televised funeral. The prime minister divorced his first wife in 1985, remarried outside the Church in 1990, and is divorcing … Continue reading
LifeNews reports: CNN is facing accusations that a news story it wrote on Earth Day promotes the one-child policy in China that has resulted in forced abortions and sterilizations. The policy recently came under more criticism when a new campaign … Continue reading
You can rest comfortably, America. Those standard-bearers of decency at the Southern Poverty Law Center are once again magnanimously acting for the common weal. They have heroically identified forty (potential) domestic terrorists who are part of the “resurgent” patriot movement. … Continue reading
LifeNews reports: Oklahoma became the 22nd state to file a lawsuit seeking to overturn the government-run health care bill President Barack Obama signed into law that funds abortions. Because state Attorney General Drew Edmondson refused to file suit, the Oklahoma … Continue reading
LifeNews reports: Chinese officials have come under fire over the last week for a massive campaign to attempt to sterilize as many as 10,000 people for violating the nation’s one child rule. The family planning rule has seen the nation … Continue reading
LifeNews reports: The government of Kenya, apparently with the help of the Obama administration, is rolling out a national educational campaign designed to persuade people to vote for the new pro-abortion constitution this summer. Meanwhile, governmental leaders are attacking church … Continue reading
Catholic Culture reports: Bishop Malcolm McMahon of Nottingham is warning Catholics that a victory by the Liberal Democrats in the May 6 general election could threaten the existence of Catholic schools. The party has pledged to make it illegal for … Continue reading
Miami archdiocese news release here. Also, more good news. Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, will head Springfield, Illinois, diocese. See news here.
CNA reports: In response to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Peggy Noonan in which she criticized the Catholic Church for the “second wave” of sex scandals and charged that the “old Vatican needs new blood,” one critic is saying that Noonan … Continue reading
LifeNews reports: A prominent pro-abortion group is concerned about the future of legal abortions and, surprisingly, released the results of an internal poll it conducted to Newsweek demonstrating the problems. The bad news for NARAL is that its own survey … Continue reading
If Thomas Peters’ sources are correct over at Catholic Vote Action .org. we will know tomorrow if the rumor reflects reality. This would be great for Florida, to have a fighter like Wenski in charge of the state’s largest diocese. … Continue reading
Last year I posted a Catholic News Agency story about a saintly young Catholic, Gloria Strauss, who died of cancer at the age of seven. It was one of the most extraordinary stories of heroic sanctity that I had ever … Continue reading
Catholic Culture reports: “If the Church says something that is wrong or stupid, even Christian leaders should have the courage to say: ‘No. I disagree with that. You are wrong. That was a stupid thing to say,’” said 75-year-old Bishop … Continue reading
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