Category: News

Catholic crucifixes, statues, etc., are too “mono-confessional,” and should not be seen on public property.  What would multi-confessional imagery/art look like?

Sydney, May. 29, 2008 (CWNews.com) – World Youth Day organizers in Sydney, Australia, have altered the traditional pattern for the Stations of the Cross in a bow to ecumenical and inter-religious sensibilities, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Instead of the … Continue reading →

Madrid, May 28, 2008 / 03:52 pm (CNA).- The majority Socialist party in Spain’s Congress joined the opposition Popular Party in rejecting a law proposed by the United Left Party that would have prohibited the displaying of religious symbols during … Continue reading →

Vatican, May. 27, 2008 (CWNews.com) – A new edition of the statistical yearbook of the Catholic Church shows the Catholic proportion of the world’s population holding steady at 17.3%. The new volume from the Vatican publishing house shows a substantial … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

“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 →

(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 →

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.