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St. Thomas More is the St Paul archdiocese’s first immigrant sanctuary parish

April 5, 2017 breaking Comments Off on St. Thomas More is the St Paul archdiocese’s first immigrant sanctuary parish

Leaders of St. Thomas More in St. Paul announced at Masses March 25-26 that the parish intends to become a sanctuary parish for unauthorized immigrants and is willing to house people facing deportation in its parish center. It is the first Catholic parish in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis to declare itself a sanctuary parish. According to a March 27 statement, St. Thomas More is especially interested in helping immigrants in cases that “would separate parents from their children or would separate people brought to the United States as children from the only homes they have ever truly known.” The statement was signed by St. Thomas More’s pastor Jesuit Father Warren Sazama and Sarah Mullins, the parish’s pastoral council…Continue Reading

Trump cuts funding to UN agency over forced abortion support

April 4, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Trump cuts funding to UN agency over forced abortion support

April 4, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The Trump administration has withdrawn U.S. funding from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) because of its participation in China’s forced abortion regime. “This determination was made based on the fact that China’s family planning policies still involve the use of coercive abortion and involuntary sterilisation, and UNFPA partners on family planning activities with the Chinese government agency responsible for these coercive policies,” according

University president fully supports institute that linked gov’t website for school kids to ‘gay’ smut

April 4, 2017 breaking Comments Off on University president fully supports institute that linked gov’t website for school kids to ‘gay’ smut

EDMONTON, Alberta, April 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The University of Alberta’s president is singing the praises of a pro-homosexual institute even after revelations it runs a government website for kindergarten to Grade 12 students that provided links to graphic homosexual content. In an email to Brian Rushfeldt, founder and former president

Trump failed to defund Planned Parenthood, repeal Obamacare. What now?

April 2, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Trump failed to defund Planned Parenthood, repeal Obamacare. What now?

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 31, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — After President Trump’s replacement for ObamaCare failed to garner enough votes in the House, President Trump admonished members of his party and told them to “get on board.” Trump lobbied doubters, but in the end, several Republicans refused to vote for his plan. Among them were members of the House Freedom Caucus, who felt the plan didn’t go far enough to rid the country of socialized medicine. Pro-life organizations expressed concerns over loopholes in Trump’s healthcare plan that could be used to fund abortion with taxpayer dollars

Cardinal Sarah’s Address on the 10th Anniversary of “Summorum Pontificum”

April 1, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Cardinal Sarah’s Address on the 10th Anniversary of “Summorum Pontificum”

March 31, 2017 The exclusive English translation of the message sent by the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments to the Colloquium “The Source of the Future” Cardinal Robert Sarah Colloquium “The Source of the Future” (“Quelle der Zukunft”) on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum by Pope Benedict XVI March 29 – April 1, 2017 Herzogenrath, near Aachen (Germany) Introductory Message First of all I wish to thank from

What happens when babies survive abortion? A doctor’s alarming response

March 30, 2017 breaking Comments Off on What happens when babies survive abortion? A doctor’s alarming response

Washington D.C., Mar 29, 2017 / 03:40 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A new undercover video shows an Arizona abortion clinic doctor saying her facility’s treatment of babies who show “signs of life” after an abortion depended on “who’s in the room.” Dr. DeShawn Taylor, who runs an abortion and Ob/Gyn clinic in Phoenix, Ariz. and who was formerly the medical director at Planned Parenthood Arizona, was filmed undercover saying that according to Arizona law “if the fetus comes out with any signs of life” at an abortion clinic, “we’re supposed to transport it … to the hospital.” However, when asked on camera, if at her clinic “is there any standard procedure for verifying signs of life?”, she didn’t answer with a

Could Dozens Of Shuttered Catholic Churches Become Immigrant Sanctuaries?

March 29, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Could Dozens Of Shuttered Catholic Churches Become Immigrant Sanctuaries?

Roman Catholic activists are calling on the Archdiocese of New York to take a stronger stance against deportation. While dozens of churches, mosques and synagogues across the city are opening their doors to immigrants, providing everything from know-your-rights training to physical sanctuary from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, they say Cardinal Timothy Dolan isn’t doing his share. Some are calling on Dolan to explicitly denounce deportation, while others see an opportunity in the dozens of empty churches across Manhattan, Staten Island  

Will the Roberts Court Allow Catholic Hospitals to Keep Underfunding Pension Plans?

March 28, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Will the Roberts Court Allow Catholic Hospitals to Keep Underfunding Pension Plans?

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments in a series of cases with the potential to allow businesses like Catholic hospitals to avoid complying with employee benefits law by exploiting a “church plan” exemption. If the Roberts Court sides with the businesses, that could mean

Canadian surgeons harvesting organs from euthanised patients

March 27, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Canadian surgeons harvesting organs from euthanised patients

Taking advantage of the country’s new law, Canadian transplant surgeons have harvested organs from dozens of euthanasia patients. According to the National Post, 26 people in Ontario who died by lethal injection have donated tissue or organs. This involved mostly corneas, skin, heart valves, bones and tendons. The National Post’s report only covered Ontario. Bioethicists, Transplant Quebec and an ethics committee of the Quebec government in Quebec argued last year that euthanasia could be a good source of organs, so it is quite possible that similar procedures have been carried out in that province as well. “If we accept people can make decisions to end life, and we accept the idea of cardiac death being sufficient for organ donation, this should…Continue Reading

VIDEO: Card. Burke about the future of the Five Dubia about ‘Amoris laetitia’

March 26, 2017 breaking Comments Off on VIDEO: Card. Burke about the future of the Five Dubia about ‘Amoris laetitia’

At St. Raymond of Penafort Church in Virginia (which if I am not mistaken was built by my my friend Fr. James Gould), another Raymond, Card. Burke, answered a question about the Five Dubia submitted by the Four Cardinals about the infamous objectively murky bits of Amoris laetitia. The Dubia That Won’t Die. So far, Pope Francis has not given any clear answer to the Five Dubia, though surrogates (e.g., Card. Schoenborn, Card. Coccopalmerio, et al.) have