Category: News

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.

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 →

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 →

“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.

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 →

Hong Kong, May. 13, 2008 (CWNews.com) – Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong Kong has expressed doubts that the Chinese government is prepared to allow greater freedom for the Catholic Church. Since the release of Pope Benedict’s letter to Chinese Catholics … Continue reading →

A new book, The Roman Church and Political Modernity, by ecclesiastical historian, Carlo Fantappié, explores the legal genius of the great anti-modernist pope in his defense of the liberty of the Church and his bringing her up to date as … Continue reading →

LifeNews.com: “As the very first line of Steven Mosher’s latest book reads, we have all grown up “on a poisonous diet of overpopulation propaganda.”Mosher’s book, Population Control-Real Costs, Illusory Benefits, is, first and foremost, an answer to the allegation that … Continue reading →

Well, there are thirty-five craters on the moon named after Jesuit astronomers.  Maybe those who decide such things can find another hole up there, or somewhere, to name after this star gazing padre.

Vatican, May. 12, 2008 (CWNews.com) – Humanae Vitae (doc), the landmark encyclical of Pope Paul VI “became a sign of contradiction” because it upheld the Church’s traditional condemnation of contraception, Pope Benedict XVI (bio – news) told a Roman audience … Continue reading →

CNA STAFF, May 10, 2008 / 04:58 pm (CNA).- A former Jordanian minister has seized upon commentary about the decline of Western power, saying on Arabic-language television that Islam will conquer Rome.  He went on to say that Spain is … Continue reading →

Vatican, May. 9, 2008 (CWNews.com) – Cardinal Dario Castrillon-Hoyos has told an Italian magazine that diocesan bishops should show good will in granting requests for the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass under the terms of the motu proprio authorizing … Continue reading →