By Phil Stewart VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict, ahead of his first trip to the United States, praised Americans on Friday who oppose gay marriage and abortion and called for global nuclear disarmament. In an address to new U.S. … Continue reading
When someone labels John Paul II a “reactionary,” you know his deck has a few more jokers in it than usual. I suspect the hierarchy will be content to continue losing non-conservative Catholics in the U.S. if they’re replaced by … Continue reading
Washington DC, Mar 1, 2008 / 06:10 pm (CNA).- Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama has promised to use the presidency as a “bully pulpit” for homosexual activism, according to an open letter released on his campaign website. In the February … Continue reading
NEW DELHI – March 3 (CNN-IBN) – Sister Alphonsa from Kerala will become the first nun from India to be canonised by the Vatican ahead of Mother Teresa. She will become Saint Alphonsa on October 12 this year. The date … Continue reading
Doha, Feb 29, 2008 / 11:18 pm (CNA).- The first Catholic Church in an Arab Muslim emirate will be dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, during a ceremony that will be celebrated by Cardinal Ivan Dias, Prefect of the Congregation … Continue reading
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) released a statement on February 29 saying that a baptism “in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer, and of the Sanctifier,” is not a valid Christian sacrament. Both … Continue reading
This is not the first time Rabbi Neuser has parted company with Foxman et alia. The ADL and company’s strident propaganda would lead people to assume that all Jews think that way.
VATICAN CITY, Feb 29 (Reuters) – Pope Benedict deplored on Friday the kidnapping of the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul in Iraq as a “despicable” crime and urged the gunmen to free the prelate. Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho was kidnapped … Continue reading
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
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