CNA reports: The morning of his inauguration as governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie (R-N.J.) attended Mass in Newark, New Jersey, “looking at it as an opportunity to begin the day in prayer.” Full article is here.
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Body of Haiti’s Vicar General Found, His Hands Clasped Around a Pyx Containing the Sacred Host
CNA reports: The body of Vicar General Charles Benoit was found beneath the ruins of the Port-au-Prince Cathedral today, a week after the catastrophic earthquake that wreaked havoc on the Haitian community. Vicar General Charles Benoit was discovered with his … Continue reading
Asians, Africans Join in International Protest Against U.S. Taxpayer Money Aborting their Children
Catholic Online reports: Ligaya Acosta, Filippino coordinator for Human Life International: “This is now the anniversary of President Obama’s allowing Americans’ taxpayer funds to be used to promote abortion and other assaults on life in my own country of the … Continue reading
Icons, the Gospels, and Crosses Adorn Russian Space Station
This is interesting. Cosmonauts bring holy images and relics into outer space with them. An American astronaut, Ronald Garan, took a relic of St. Thérèse with him on the space shuttle Discovery in 2008. CNA reports: The Gospels, four icons, … Continue reading
College Star Tebow and His Mother to Give Pro-Life TV Message During Super Bowl
CNA reports: A pro-life ad featuring college football star Tim Tebow and his mother will be aired during the Super Bowl broadcast on CBS. The 30-second ad, sponsored by Focus on the Family, intends to encourage respect for life. Read … Continue reading
Philosophy Professor at Catholic College Lists Planned Parenthood and NARAL as His Affiliates
Catholic Culture is doing a great job uncovering all the moral subversives teaching in “Catholic” colleges or advertising abortion services on “Catholic” college websites or bulletins. Here’s another one: A professor who teaches the introduction to philosophy course at a … Continue reading
Prominent American Rabbi Decries Israel’s Treatment of the Vatican
Catholic Culture reports: Describing Israel’s behavior towards the Holy See since 1994 as “outrageous,” Rabbi David Rosen, director of the American Jewish Committee’s Department of Interreligious Affairs, said that “any [other] country would have threatened to withdraw its ambassador long … Continue reading
Pope’s Appointment to Fill Vacant Belgian See Upsets Anti-Catholic Politicians
Catholic Culture reports: Pope Benedict on January 18 named Bishop André-Mutien Léonard of Namur, a member of the International Theological Commission, as Archbishop of Malines-Brussels. Succeeding the influential Cardinal Godfried Danneels, Archbishop Léonard is known for his forthright defense of … Continue reading
Coakley vs. the Constitution
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today rebuked Attorney General Martha Coakley for suggesting that pro-life religious believers should not work in hospital emergency rooms. During an interview on the Ken Pittman Show on WBSM Radio in New Bedford, Coakley … Continue reading
Inspiring Story of Adoptive Family of Baltimore Ravens Giant Left Tackle
Another Catholic News Service brief, scroll down to 10th item here.
Young Religious From Various Orders Buried in Rubble of Collapsed Retreat
Catholic News Service, scroll down to sixth news brief.
Health Care Bill Also Penalizes Married Couples and Rewards Single Co-Habitators
All of which leads to more abortions. Read this: http://www.quistforcongress.com/2009/12/press-release-marriage-penalty-in-health-care-bills/
Jesuit Magazine to Give Campion Award to Dr. Rowan Williams
Catholic Culture’s Diogenes reports: St. Edmund Campion, martyr, lives on as a model of cheerful, gutsy, devout intelligence disciplined toward the single goal of recovering and rebuilding Catholic churchmanship where it had lain in ruins. I was amused and delighted, … Continue reading
Boycotting Mass? For a “Transgenderite”?
But then, again, if he doesn’t know what sex he is, how’s he going to know that he doesn’t work for those whom he advertises that he works for? Well, one hundred softies are boycotting Mass in protest of the … Continue reading
Pro-Life Family of Twelve All Received into the Catholic Church
This is an astonishing story. Four of the twelve children are adopted and have Down Syndrome. Before their conversion the Curtis’s were very active in the pro-life movement in their home state of Virginia. Sixteen year-old Maddy is currently singing … Continue reading
