Chiesa Pilgrimages banned to the most important Chinese Marian shrine – on the day of prayer established by the pope. ROMA (Chiesa) – During this month of May, in two days, the first of the annual days of prayer for … Continue reading
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Spanish Bishop Urges Parents to Fight Godless Indoctrination of Children in Schools
Education for Citizenship, an immoral Marxist, anti-family, anti-Catholic, course in Spain’s state schools is now declared mandatory for all students. CNA reports: Madrid, May 22, 2008 / 10:24 am (CNA).- In his most recent pastoral letter Bishop Jose Ignacio Aguirre … Continue reading
Shroud of Turin May Be Retested
May. 21, 2008 (CWNews.com) – An American researcher has convinced Oxford University scientists to reconsider a test that had cast doubts on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. After carbon-14 testing on a fragment from the Shroud, an Oxford … Continue reading
Mexican Cardinal Urges Devotion to Cristero Martyrs
Guadalajara, May 20, 2008 / 06:58 pm (CNA).- In preparation for the eighth anniversary of the canonization of the martyrs of Jalisco of the Cristero War, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara is encouraging the faithful to participate in the … Continue reading
Men’s Retreat Brings Baptist Family into Catholic Church
This is a very inspiring story. What this conversion story proves is that there are graces abundant drawing people to the truth of the Catholic Faith, even in the most anti-Catholic environments. America can be converted. Read what Tenna Genzer … Continue reading
Another Joseph II in Argentina: “Sacristina Kirchner”
Buenos Aires, May 15, 2008 / 04:19 pm (CNA).- The government of Cristina Kirchner has decided to “chastise” Church officials in Argentina for their criticism of its policies by announcing it will cancel a 198 year-old tradition and replace the … Continue reading
Pope Tells the Young of Savona to Trust in Mary
Stressing the importance of the Memorare Prayer, which he recited to the crowd after the Angelus, the Holy Father made note of the appealing message given by Mary to a shepherd from the Genoa region in 1400. “Genoa, May 18, … Continue reading
3000 Assyrian Apostolics Received into Catholic Church
San Jose, CA., May 18, 2008 / 12:40 pm (CNA).- One week ago today leaders of the Chaldean Catholic Church in California formally received into communion a bishop of the Assyrian Apostolic Church of the East, his clergy, and about … Continue reading
Cambodian Catholics Honor Bishop and All Victims of Khmer Rouge
“Estimates of the number of people who died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge — killed, worked to death in rural labor camps that came to be known as the “killing fields,” from lack of food and medical care … Continue reading
Catholic Action League Denounces Regis College for Honoring Pro-Abortion Legislator
(May 18, 2008) The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized Regis College, founded by the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, for conferring an honorary degree upon Massachusetts House Majority Whip Lida Eistenstadt Harkins (D-Needham), a longstanding advocate … Continue reading
Iraqi Court Sentences Killer of Archbishop Rahho to Death
The Daily Telegraph: “A LEADER of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been sentenced to death for the killing of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, whose murder in March drew worldwide condemnation.
May 24 Day of Prayer for Church in China
Vatican, May. 16, 2008 (CWNews.com) – Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) has composed a prayer to Our Lady of Sheshan, following up on his decision to make May 24 a special day of prayer for the Church in China. … Continue reading
Israel Celebrates 60 Years While Palestinians Mourn
JERUSALEM – Women screaming and children trying to escape a village on fire. These are just two of the images that two Palestinian sisters, Fatima and Zeinab Jaber, 65 and 71, live with from an event they witnessed 60 years ago. … Continue reading
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos Promotes ‘An Ecumenism of Return’
“An ecumenism of return” is the pejorative with which a famous progressivist labeled the type of ecumenical activity which seeks to bring people into the Catholic Church. Now it appears that the Holy See is endorsing the idea.
Courageous Catholic Convert Had Confronted Hitler’s New Religion in His Journal
Rome, May 13, 2008 / 08:13 pm (CNA).- Fritz Michael Gerlich, a German convert to Catholicism, systematically denounced the Nazi barbarism and Hitler for over 13 years. After his arrest, he was sent to the concentration camp of Dachau where … Continue reading