Category: News

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Alternative news sources for secular news. Here is a list of online news sources that don’t reheat the standard New-York-Times-CNN-BostonGlobe-HuffPo-etc-etc-approved version of what goes on in the world. We in no way endorse the editorial policies of these organizations, but neither could we do the same for the common media outlets.

Mob of Hindu radicals attacks nuns, teenage girls

Mumbai, Mar 18, 2008 / 05:14 am (CNA).- A Hindu radical group on Saturday attacked two Catholic nuns and three teenage girls in a western Indian village as they prepared to hold a women’s educational program, UCA News reports. Sister … Continue reading

Catechumens Overcome Difficulties On Their Road To Baptism

CAMBODIA – PHNOM PENH (UCAN) — Catechumens in Cambodia commonly face challenges including family rejection, community ostracism and government unease.UCA News spoke with catechumens of St. Joseph Parish in Phsar Thoich, Phnom Penh, recently about their journey into the Church. … Continue reading

Archbishop Terrence Prendergast on Denying Pro-Abort Politicians Holy Communion

Exclusive Interview: Ottawa Archbishop Explains Why Pro-Abortion Politicians are Denied Communion By John-Henry Westen OTTAWA, March 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The mainstream media has picked up on comments by Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast regarding reception of Holy Communion for pro-abortion … Continue reading

Evangelical Catholicism: Quid Est?

John Allen says that “‘evangelical Catholicism’ constitutes a mega-trend in Catholic life.” But what is he talking about? [W]hat I’m trying to describe is the most powerful current at the policy-setting level of the church, as well as a dynamic … Continue reading

Pope to Offer Mass for Murdered Bishop Faraj

(AGI) – Vatican City, mar. 14 – On Monday the 17th of March Pope Benedict XVI will preside, in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel located in the Vatican, a mass for Mons. Paulos Faraj Rahho, Chaldean archbishop of Mosul, who was … Continue reading

Brent Bozell III: Lewis Black, Anti-Catholic Hack

The president of the Media Research Center on Comedy Central’s latest blasphemous “entertainment”: Black is the star of a brand-new Comedy Central show, named “The Root of All Evil.” Comedians act like prosecutors, with Black as judge, trying to determine … Continue reading

World leaders condemn death of Iraqi archbishop

Mosul, Mar. 14, 2008 (CWNews.com) – As Archbishop Paulos Faraj Raho was buried on March 14, world leaders joined in condemning the kidnapping that led to the Chaldean prelate’s death. After seizing Archbishop Raho on February 29, in a bloody … Continue reading

Bodies Revealed

The TFP has published an article on the macabre spectacle which is touring American cities now: “Bodies Revealed.”

Missionaries of Charity Going Traditional?

From Father Zuhlsdorf: Recently Sister Marcella, MC, the Regional Superior of the Missionaries of Charity in the North America, asked the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius to provide instruction in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite for the … Continue reading