Catholic Culture reports: The percentage of Catholics in the United States who are Hispanic increased from 20% in 1990 to 32% in 2008, according to a new study by the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture … Continue reading
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150Gs for A Total Corpse Freeze, 80Gs for Just a Head; Yes They’re Making Big $$$
How dumb can people with no religion get? This dumb: “Discovery News reports: What is death? Over the centuries, the line dividing life and death has moved from the cessation first of breathing, then of the heartbeat, and finally of … Continue reading
Cardinal Zen Offers Memorial Mass on Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Cardinal Kung
Zenit News reports: Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun offered a memorial Mass on Friday in memory of Cardinal Kung. The cardinal, who was the bishop of Shanghai, died March 12, 2000, in the United States. About 40 people attended the Mass … Continue reading
TAC in Canada Requests Entry into Catholic Church
That would include a small number of bishops scattered across the ten provinces and three territories with all of their parishes. CNA reports: On March 12, leaders of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC) in Canada sent a letter to the … Continue reading
Hooray For Our Catholic Heroes in China
Asia News reports: Fuan (AsiaNews/Ucan) – An underground priest from the Diocese of Mindong (Fujian) was arrested for organizing a camp with 300 students. Three other priests who work with him have received an arrest warrant, not yet carried out, … Continue reading
‘England should be a Catholic country again’
That’s the motion that was debated last week in London, at an event hosted by the Spectator and held at the Royal Geographical Society. And guess what — “the 700-strong sell-out audience voted overwhelmingly in favour of the motion”! Excerpt … Continue reading
G. K. Chesterton, He Wished to Spend the Rest of His Life Thanking God for Everything
What a beautiful and crowning epithet this would have been on his tombstone. He wrote this in his early diary. Zenit has a insightful interview with the head of the Italian Chestertonian Society addressing why the great writer and thinker … Continue reading
Miracle Reported Through Intercession of Snowshoe Bishop Frederic Baraga
You can read about Venerable Bishop Baraga on our website here. CNA reports; Father Ronald Browne, who has been appointed to lead the work of the canonical tribunal, explained the story behind the alleged miracle. “We have a case involving … Continue reading
“No Room in America for Tepid and Easy Faith” Archbishop Chaput
Archbishop’s March 2 address to Catholic Health Care Workers: Thank you all for being here, and I especially want to thank Sister Miller, Clarke Gormley and George Strake, and of course my friend John Hittinger, for making our time together … Continue reading
Head of Traditional Anglicans Says No Communion for Pro-Abortion Politicians Or Anyone Advocating Such
Catholic Vote Action. org reports: Archbishop John Hepworth, Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), told LifeSiteNews (LSN) on Friday that the TAC is very clear on refusing Communion to pro-abortion politicians or anyone advocating an anti-life view. “Anybody publicly … Continue reading
Nearly One Million Spaniards March in Protest Against Abortion
CNA reports: Nearly one million Spaniards marched in cities across the country on March 7 defending the right to life of the unborn and demanding that the government revoke Spain’s new law on abortion recently passed by the Senate and … Continue reading
Hong Kong Diocese to Receive 3000 Catechumens into the Church
CNA reports: About 3,000 catechumens will be received into the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Hong Kong. Two of their first Rites of Election were held this coming Sunday. During his homily at one service in St. Francis Parish, … Continue reading
NYC Archbishop Will Give Holy Communion to ‘Catholic’ Pro-Abort and Pro-Same Sex ‘Marriage’ Politicians
Catholic Culture reports: Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York told an Albany television reporter on March 9 that he does not favor denying Holy Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion and same-sex marriage. Read more here.
Pro-Life Billboards Having Good Effects
Billboards are a very expensive way to get a message across, but they appear to be quite effective. A pro-life billboard in Kansas has brought many women in to an anti-abortion pregnancy counseling center, some of whom were already scheduled … Continue reading
CDF Prefect Affirms: ‘Union with the Catholic Church is the goal of ecumenism’
One of the commentators on the relevant CWN article expressed it well: “It’s past time someone said this. Too often ecumenism is taken to mean the weakening of the teachings of the Church and the addition of non-Catholic ritual and … Continue reading
