This notice comes from the traditionalist monastery, St Madeleine’s Abbey, in Le Barroux France: Dear friends, Maybe you know the sad news: my abbot emeritus and founder Dom Gérard Calvet is gone. Coming back from a funeral in his family, … Continue reading
This editorial by Michael McGough in the Los Angeles Times is a combination of fatuousness, pre-fab journalistic banality, and expected superficiality all rolled up in one, complete with de rigueur hat tips to superliberals Richard McBrien and Andrew Greeley. But … Continue reading
PP agreed to take donations earmarked to reduce numbers of blacks By Thaddeus M. Baklinski LOS ANGELES, February 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – UCLA’s pro-life student magazine, The Advocate, has revealed an undercover investigation in which representatives of Planned Parenthood enthusiastically … Continue reading
To read her life, go here. BENSALEM, Pennsylvania, FEB. 28, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The U.S. episcopal conference named the shrine of St. Katherine Drexel as a national shrine, making it the 27th with that title in the United States. “It was … Continue reading
The Holy Father yesterday once again promoted evangelism, this time in very sanguine terms: Pope Benedict XVI met on February 28 with bishops from El Salvador, who were concluding their ad limina visits to Rome. The Pontiff encouraged “ambitious and … Continue reading
Caracas, Feb. 28, 2008 (CWNews.com) – Supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez have occupied the residence of the Archbishop of Caracas, the newspaper El Pais reports. Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino denounced the action by members of the United Socialist Party … Continue reading
Washington DC, Feb 28, 2008 / 10:50 pm (CNA).- Following recent revelations that a Planned Parenthood youth site has been promoting pornography to teenagers, three House representatives have called for the termination of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding, Cybercast News Service … Continue reading
John Hagee, pastor of 19,000 member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, endorses John McCain because of his commitment to Israel. This promoter of the final conflagration says it’s all in the Bible, so let’s bring it on. That way Christ … Continue reading
If one’s conscience is corrupt enough to support abortion, even partial-birth abortion, then what’s to stop one from approving infanticide? As Senator, Barack Obama has voted twice in favor of killing babies after birth if they survived a botched abortion. … Continue reading
OK. Awkward headline, but it captures my mood when reading this article. The wildly successful author of horror fiction returned to her Catholic faith in the late 1990s and now writes historical fiction about the life of Jesus. Her latest, … Continue reading
Read this story, the latest on the ongoing complaint of the Russian Orthodox about Catholic dioceses in Russia. Note that the Moscow Patriarchate’s spokesman is Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, or, as he is more generally known, “Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and … Continue reading
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman MOROCCO, February 27, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Human Rights Watch (HRW), an organization that has long been committed to promoting homosexual behavior and abortion as human “rights”, has now targeted the government of Morocco. The organization, working … Continue reading
During his visit to Indonesia on February 25th, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates pledged military support for the sprawling Southeast Asian nation. The United States has thereby furthered its self-appointed role to be Policeman of the World. [Full Story]
After suffering from diabetes and emphysema according to his son Christopher, William F. Buckley, Jr. was found dead at his Connecticut home on February 27th. Two links of interest: “William F. Buckley, Leading Conservative, Dies at 82“ John F. McManus’ … Continue reading
BALTIMORE, Maryland, FEB. 27, 2008 (Zenit.org). – In the fight against AIDS, abstinence-based programs that focus on changing behaviors rather than handing out condoms simply work better, says an AIDS expert. Matthew Hanley has been a HIV/AIDS technical adviser at … Continue reading
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