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The Pontifical Academy for Life Currently Has No Members

February 10, 2017 breaking Comments Off on The Pontifical Academy for Life Currently Has No Members

As we had reported at the end of last year, Pope Francis terminated the membership of all the then-current members of the Pontifical Academy for Life, and there were around seventy of them at that time. A well-informed source told us recently: At the end of 2016, the Pontifical Academy for Life was closed and all its members dismissed. The Academy will be reconstituted in 2017 with new statutes, and the Academy will then be repopulated. The process for naming new members of the Academy

In The UK . . .‘Integration tsar’ defends remarks on Catholic schools

February 9, 2017 breaking Comments Off on In The UK . . .‘Integration tsar’ defends remarks on Catholic schools

A government adviser who suggested Catholic schools should accept gay marriage has defended her remarks in a letter to the Catholic Herald. Dame Louise Casey, the Government’s “integration tsar”, told MPs last month that it was “not OK” for Catholic schools to be “homophobic and anti-gay marriage”. She was explaining that head teachers had a difficult task in deciding how far to respond to the concerns of religious groups. She also said she had a “problem with the

Planned Parenthood sets ‘abortion quotas’, rewards clinics with pizza parties

February 8, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Planned Parenthood sets ‘abortion quotas’, rewards clinics with pizza parties

February 7, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The latest video in Live Action’s new investigative series of Planned Parenthood reveals the company rewards its centers with pizza parties for meeting abortion sales quotas – and institutes a “corrective action plan” when they don’t. “Every center had a goal for how many abortions were done,” Sue Thayer, a former Planned Parenthood manager, explains in the video. “And centers that didn’t do abortions like mine that were family planning clinics had a goal for the number of abortion referrals.

Cardinal Marx: Pope’s Line in Amoris Laetitia is “Very Clear”

February 7, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Cardinal Marx: Pope’s Line in Amoris Laetitia is “Very Clear”

Cardinal Reinhard Marx has said he “cannot understand” why there should be different interpretations of Amoris Laetitia to the one favored by the German bishops as he believes the line taken by the Pope in the apostolic exhortation is “very clear.” In brief comments to the Register Feb. 6 in Rome after accompanying an ecumenical delegation to the apostolic palace to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the Archbishop of Munich dismissed concerns about lack of clarity in the Pope’s apostolic exhortation on the family.

Keep searching for unity, Pope tells German Lutherans and Catholics

February 7, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Keep searching for unity, Pope tells German Lutherans and Catholics

The Pontiff made a speech to the leaders of the Council of the Evangelical Church in German Christ’s call for his disciples to be one requires that even as they try to resolve their differences on doctrinal and moral questions, they must get used to working and praying together, Pope Francis said. “Increasingly we are learning to ask ourselves: This initiative, can we

Chaos in the German Church in the Wake of the New Pastoral Guidelines

February 5, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Chaos in the German Church in the Wake of the New Pastoral Guidelines

Just two days after the official publication of the new pastoral guidelines concerning marriage, there seems to be in Germany an increase of disorder. Contradicting, confusing, and alarmed voices are now to be heard from all corners of the country. But, foremost, the document itself turns out to be more insidiously dangerous than had seemed to be the case at first sight. We have even now come to wonder about the extent to which laymen themselves will now have jurisdiction in the Catholic Church. As we reported two days ago, the German guidelines concerning the “remarried” divorcees seemed at first to

Conservatives worry about Trump caving to LBGT pressure on religious liberty

February 4, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Conservatives worry about Trump caving to LBGT pressure on religious liberty

February 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — A pro-natural marriage advocate at the conservative Heritage Foundation said President Trump “should not cave” to LGBT activists by failing to issue a strong executive order defending Americans’ religious liberty, a leaked draft of which has been the subject of intense criticism on the Left. Heritage senior fellow Ryan Anderson said, based on a document first leaked to the leftist magazine The Nation, that the order would be a “great place to start” for President Trump to honor his pledge to strongly defend the freedom of people to exercise their spiritual and moral conscience.

German Bishops Allow Holy Communion for the “Remarried” Now

February 1, 2017 breaking Comments Off on German Bishops Allow Holy Communion for the “Remarried” Now

After a somewhat more extended period for its preparation, the long-awaited pastoral and doctrinal document (“Word of the Bishops”) of the German Bishops’ Conference concerning the application of Amoris Laetitia has finally come out. As the German Bishops’ website, Katholisch.de, reports today: “The Remarried May Receive Communion in Individual Cases.” This piece of news, unsurprisingly, is already being reported internationally. As the new document – published today, 1 February 2017 – says, “not everybody whose marriage is broken and who is remarried” may go to the Sacraments, to include the Sacrament of Penance. The bishops propose a process of discernment in order to decide whether su

Trump nominates pro-life Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court

January 31, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Trump nominates pro-life Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court

WASHINGTON, D.C., January 31, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – President Trump confirmed Tuesday night that his Supreme Court nominee is pro-life Neil Gorsuch of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. “When Justice Scalia passed away suddenly last February, I made a promise to the American people” to find “very best judge in the country for the Supreme Court,” said Trump. “I am a man of my word. I will do as I say, something that the American people have been asking for from Washington for a very, very long time.” Trump said Gorsuch has a “brillant mind, tremendous discipline” and bipartisan support. Trump noted that a justice can serve for half a century

How the left ‘brainwashes’ kids to accept its sexual ideology – and how parents can fight back

January 31, 2017 breaking Comments Off on How the left ‘brainwashes’ kids to accept its sexual ideology – and how parents can fight back

January 30, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A conservative law professor’s new book details the ways in which the left attacks children’s minds and indoctrinates them to adopt secular, anti-family values. Dr. Carol M. Swain, a Vanderbilt University law professor whose pro-family views have drawn the ire of liberal activists, gave an exclusive interview to LifeSiteNews about her new book, Abduction: How Liberalism Steals our Children’s Hearts and Minds.