Catholic Culture reports: Canada’s first Asian-born bishop is the great-great-grandson of a Vietnamese martyr who suffered drowning rather than renounce his faith. “The executioners tied him to a post in the river and waited for the tide to come up,” … Continue reading
This man is off the wall. But he keeps to the program. I remember seeing him posed on the front cover of Time Magazine proudly gripping his lapel (is this a sign of something?) when he was running for the … Continue reading
Missionary International Service News Agency: The body of Monsignor Serge Miot, Archbishop of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, was pulled from the rubble of his offices. The news was referred to MISNA by the missionaries of the Saint Jacques Society, present … Continue reading
Zenit News reports: The Custos of the Holy Land is affirming that his region is looking to Benedict XVI and the Church for support in a difficult situation as Israel announces it will erect another wall. Read full interview with … Continue reading
I was a seminarian at Saint Michael’s from 1971-1974. Father Parker was a brilliant man and extremely efficient. So was his fellow Hungarian assistant, Father Szanto. When I visited him in 1980 and told him about Saint Benedict Center, Father … Continue reading
One of the things the imams shout out seven times a day from their minarets is that “Allah is Great.” From the mosque across from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem they add a word “Allah is too great.” … Continue reading
Catholic Culture reports: Recalling that his interest in Medjugorje dates back to the 1980s, when Viennese Dominicans were associated with a Medjugorje prayer circle, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has told an Austrian Catholic newspaper that “without anticipating a definitive Church judgment, … Continue reading
UCAN report ed the news. Here is a clip demonstrating how he was persecuted even in death. The funeral service was held in Xiwanzi town, Chongli county, in Hebei province. Bishop Yao was referred to as “shepherd” during the service, … Continue reading
LifeNews reports: President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the agency charged with keeping American travelers safe from terrorism thinks pro-life advocates are terrorists. A new video shows Transportation Security Administration nominee Erroll Southers including pro-life advocates in a list of … Continue reading
Writing for Britain’s Catholic Herald, security expert Dominic Scarborough urges the Vatican to draw on tradition to prevent a repeat of the Midnight Mass attack on Benedict XVI. He believes that the sedia gestatoria would protect the Pope from such … Continue reading
A little late, but I should have posted this news a few days ago. When Catholic heroes die it should be headlined in every Catholic paper and on every website. New York Times, BEIJING — Leon Yao Liang, a Roman … Continue reading
“We sold our soul for money,” Dr. Choi said. “Abortion was an easy way to make money.” The story was reported today by LifeNews. I have not been able to provide a link yet.
This is a great, yes “great”, little article by Jack Kenney (friend of Saint Benedict Center), published in the New American, the magazine of the John Birch Society. This is a patriotic magazine, pro-American, not a Catholic magazine. Here’s the … Continue reading
I was delighted to read that there is a movement to introduce the cause of another Australian, Caroline Chisholm, in the wake of Blessed Mary MacKillop’s upcoming canonization. I spotted this on a website I just discovered, CN Catholic News. … Continue reading
Phil Lawler at Catholic Culture has Msgr. Graham Leonard’s amazing story here with obituary links.
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