Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, confirmed last week as Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, has advocated reception of Holy Communion according to the Church’s ancient tradition, kneeling and on the tongue. When asked … Continue reading
Lisa Correnti, San Diego mother of seven, has a web site called One Nation Under God. On that site is a petition you can sign asking the U.S. bishops to take a strong stand with pro-abortion politicians. The effort has … Continue reading
The Holy See’s Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith has just released a new doctrinal document titled “Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions” which deals with a number of questions and provides a moral analysis of a number of … Continue reading
What an inspiring story this is. A ten-year old girl, whose face and body were severely burned by a fire bomb, forgives her enemies and thanks “the Baby Jesus” and all those at the hospital who healed her wounds. In … Continue reading
According to Bloomberg.com, about 1.25 million people were left powerless in New England as a result of freezing rain. We here at Saint Benedict Center, which is situated on a hilltop in a rural town, are still without power, but … Continue reading
So, you’re married to the ex prime minister of England, and you’re Catholic, so now, at the invitation of what was once a great university, you get to tell the Roman Curia to emasculate itself. I can’t think of any … Continue reading
The president elect is planning to save the baby-killing industry, or so says a memo from the Obama transition team. Some pro-lifers have begun to fight.
On the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, December 12, Avery Dulles died. It is not widely known, but the famous Jesuit theologian was, with Catherine Goddard Clark and Christopher Huntington, one of the three founders of the original Saint … Continue reading
When your profession is homicidal, a little rape cover-up probably doesn’t seem all that bad. So much for protecting the rights of women. The story is at Livenews.com: Planned Parenthood Fires Abortion Center Staffer Covering Up Statutory Rape
Take a minute and think about the shuddering reality of what is happening in this African country. Almost half of its thirteen million people are starving to death. The people are so desperate that they are mixing cow dung with … Continue reading
Canadian author, journalist and attorney, Ezra Levant, has done something unusually heroic. He has made himself a civil-rights guinea pig to test the system, that system being Canada’s Orwellian “Human Rights Commission.” The commission is a neo-Stalinist enforcer of liberal … Continue reading
Vatican City, Dec 10, 2008 / 11:37 am (CNA).- The Paul VI Hall held around 5,000 faithful this morning, who listened to Pope Benedict unfold St. Paul’s teaching on the sacraments. When people receive the sacraments, he explained, they encounter … Continue reading
It’s a big event every year on December 2, the lighting of the Capitol Christmas tree. This year the priest who serves the White House and Congress accented the Christ in Christmas in his prayer. Speaker of the House Pelosi … Continue reading
The young man, Shin Dong Hyuk, managed to escape from a prison camp and live to tell about it. The following account from an interview he gave in Seoul is shuddering.
If ever I have seen encouraging news that is tragic at the same time it is this. Young men who seek to enter the Latin Rite seminary are sent home because of lack of space. Such a situation should be … Continue reading
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