When more things like this start happening quietly, one can see hope for the future. Zenit News Agency: Belarus has not yet celebrated its 20th birthday, but since the country gained independence in 1991, the Church there has been blossoming: … Continue reading
Diogenes has a great piece over at Catholic Culture, quoting the always perceptive Damian Thompson of London’s Daily Telegraph. If you hate long sentences, you’ll love this one. I don’t know how Thompson keeps his job, but more power to … Continue reading
Yes, ecumenism moves on. Blow out those Catholic candles. If you cannot, then at least put them under bushel baskets. Catholic Culture reports: Describing “sheep stealing” as “very visible and threatening to Church unity,” Archbishop Leo Cornelio of Bhopal and … Continue reading
After posting this sorrowful news earlier, I found on Zenit News that Pope Benedict is publicly mourning the tragic murders of these dedicated religious.
Bet you never knew he was a New Testament scholar? Here’s Carter the theologian challenging Catholic doctrine before this august body of religious leaders who are more clueless as he is: The American Catholic reports: In opposition to the vast … Continue reading
The first was in the Republic of Congo. Father Daniel Cizimya Nakamaga was killed by armed robbers on December 6. Then a nun, Sister Denise Kahambu, was killed as thugs raided a Trappist monastery nearby on December 8. CNA report … Continue reading
The enemies of the Church are showing their hand all the more boldly each day. If they have their way in England bishops would be prosecuted who refused to ordain women and whoever else wanted ordination. Seminaries would be required … Continue reading
Diane Francis, writing for The Financial Standard, is using the usual scare tactics to promote the idea. It reminded me of my high school economics’ teacher. He told us back in 1970 that by the year 2000, unless parents limited … Continue reading
CNA reports: More than 1,000 Buddhist extremists armed with clubs, swords and stones ferociously attacked a Catholic church in the town of Crooswatta, Sri Lanka on December 6, destroying the altar, statues and pews. L’Osservatore Romano reported that Father Jude … Continue reading
“That’s so gay!” Not nice. It offends. It shouldn’t be used. So say the folks who coopted the innocent word “gay” and transmogrified it to mean “homosexual.” Now these same folks don’t want others to coopt their coopted word and … Continue reading
Cardinal Bergoglio and other bishops are ordering that baptism not be withheld from those who are far removed from religious practice. Better a Church of the people than one only of the pure. Ratzinger also thinks this way. Sandro Magister … Continue reading
Dr. Jeff Mirus has an article on Catholic Cultures website that includes some of the bolder statements currently being offered by leading abortion advocates. What was called “health care service” is now being called “sacred work.” In his last days … Continue reading
CNA reports: Craig Manson, Distinguished Professor and Lecturer in Law at the University of the Pacific, has recently written about how the South in the U.S could be regarded as the “birthplace of black Catholicism.” Read article here.
This is astounding. What hypocrisy! ND’s president, Father Jenkins, will join the March for Life this March, but he won’t (or hasn’t yet) dropped charges against 88 pro-lifers who protested Barack Obama’s addressing the graduates last June. Catholic Online reports: … Continue reading
Catholic Culture reports: On the eve of a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Russia’s President Dmitri Medvedev, there are new signs of substantial progress in relations between the Holy See and the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow, and hint that … Continue reading
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