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Pope on Nice attack: condemns blind violence

July 15, 2016 breaking Comments Off on Pope on Nice attack: condemns blind violence

Vatican Radio) In a telegram sent on his behalf by the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis has condemned the terror attack in Nice and expressed his profound sadness and his spiritual closeness to the French people. Addressed to the Bishop of Nice Andre Marceau, the telegram noted that whilst France was celebrating its national day “blind violence has once again hit the nation” in the city of Nice whose victims include many children. It said the Pope once again “condemned such acts” and expressed his “profound sadness and his spiritual closeness to the French people.” The telegram continued by saying that Pope Francis “entrusts to the Mercy of God those who have lost their lives” and…Continue Reading

Donald Trump Reportedly to Name Pro-Life Governor Mike Pence His VP Running Mate

July 14, 2016 breaking Comments Off on Donald Trump Reportedly to Name Pro-Life Governor Mike Pence His VP Running Mate

Multiple news reports today indicate Donald Trump is expected to name pro-life Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his vice-presidential running mate. The announcement is expectantly officially tomorrow and officials with the Trump campaign caution, as expected, that the decision has not been officially made despite many news reports stating otherwise. The Indy Star newspaper in Indianapolis was one of the first to report the news that Trump selected the pro-life advocate fom the Hooser state as his number two: Gov. Mike Pence is dropping his re-election bid in Indiana to become Donald Trump’s running mate.

Hillary Clinton Won Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award, Wants to Continue Her Policies

July 14, 2016 breaking Comments Off on Hillary Clinton Won Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award, Wants to Continue Her Policies

The following is the text of a speech Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey gave to the closing banquet of last week’s National Right to Life convention: Thank you NRLC for four decades of extraordinary leadership in defense of the weakest and most vulnerable. What a truly amazing team of smart, faithful and faith-filled doers of the word—Carol, David and Darla, and Doug Johnson (the most effective policy guy in Washington) and the rest of the team. May God continue to give you—and all NRLC affiliates—strength and wisdom. I am joined tonight by my dear wife Marie—we actually met in the pro-life movement in college, she is director of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI)—part of Fr. Frank Pavone’s…Continue Reading

Top adviser to Pope JPII warns of a cabal undermining Church with backing from within

July 13, 2016 breaking Comments Off on Top adviser to Pope JPII warns of a cabal undermining Church with backing from within

July 11, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Monsignor Michel Schooyans, a top adviser to Pope St. John Paul II who was also close to Pope Benedict XVI, has issued a dire warning about the current trajectory in the Catholic Church. In a paper, published on LifeSiteNews, Professor Schooyans, a member of several Pontifical Academies and Councils, writes that “the Synod on the Family has revealed a profound malaise in the Church.” The retired professor from Belgium, now 86, speaks of the “crisis” in the Church, saying, “it is futile to close our eyes: the Church is challenged in its very foundations.”

Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter Publishes a Critique of Amoris Laetitia

July 11, 2016 breaking Comments Off on Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter Publishes a Critique of Amoris Laetitia

  Maike Hickson On the official website of the German section of the Fraternity of St. Peter, the head of the German District, Father Bernhard Gerstle has published a polite critique (http://petrusbruderschaft.de/pages/archiv/distriktsoberer/mai-2016—amoris-laetitia.php) of the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia. In his short 19 May commentary of one page, there are to be found some strong objections against the message of Amoris Laetitia which very well now could, in Gerstle’s eyes, give a doubtful opening toward the already wide-spread practice (praxis) of allowing “remarried” divorcees to receive Holy Communion. In the aftermath of this official statement, the Fraternity also has received permission to print and sell a more detailed critical commentary (http://petrusbruderschaft.de/pages/bakery/stellungnahme-zu-amoris-laetitia-63.php) written by Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan. With both…Continue Reading

Pope reflects on parable of Good Samaritan at Angelus

July 10, 2016 breaking Comments Off on Pope reflects on parable of Good Samaritan at Angelus

(Vatican Radio) At the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis reflected on the parable of the Good Samaritan. This parable, the Pope said, in a simple, yet stimulating way, “indicates a style of life, in which the centre of gravity is not ourselves, but others.” Like the doctor of the law in the day’s Gospel, we might ask ourselves, “Who is my neighbour? Is it my friends, my parents, my fellow countrymen, my co-religionists?” Jesus does not answer the question directly, but instead tells of the Good Samaritan, a man who did not observe the true religion, but who nonetheless helped the poor, abandoned victim of robbers – in contrast to the priest and the Levite who simply passed him by.…Continue Reading

Fatima visionary predicted ‘final battle’ would be over marriage, family

July 9, 2016 breaking Comments Off on Fatima visionary predicted ‘final battle’ would be over marriage, family

Mexico City, Mexico, Jul 8, 2016 / 03:33 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Sister Lucia dos Santos, one of the three children who witnessed the Marian apparitions at Fatima, died in 2005. But before her death, she predicted that the final battle between Christ and Satan would be over marriage and the family. So says Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, who reports that the visionary sent him a letter with this prediction when he was Archbishop of Bologna, Italy. This reported statement by Sister Lucia, expressed during the pontificate of Saint John Paul II, was recently revisited by the Desde la Fe (From the Faith) weekly of the Archdiocese of Mexico, in the midst of the debate generated by President Enrqiue Pena Nieto, who…Continue Reading

U.S. Bishop: Catechism uses ‘very destructive’ language on homosexuality

July 8, 2016 breaking Comments Off on U.S. Bishop: Catechism uses ‘very destructive’ language on homosexuality

SAN DIEGO, California, July 6, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy celebrated Pope Francis’ call for Christians to apologize to gays and suggested the Catholic Church consider changing how it refers to same-sex attraction and homosexual acts. McElroy’s comments were published June 30 in an interview with the Jesuit magazine America. “I think [the Pope’s call for an apology] opens up a very helpful pathway to dialogue and hopefully healing,” McElroy said. “What we need to project in the life of the church is ‘You are part of us and we are part of you.’ [LGBT Catholics] are part of our families.”

Pope names left-wing Archbishop Cupich to key role in picking future U.S. bishops

July 7, 2016 breaking Comments Off on Pope names left-wing Archbishop Cupich to key role in picking future U.S. bishops

July 7, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has named Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich to serve as a member of the Congregation for Bishops, the Vatican office that recommends to the Pope candidates to be appointed bishops. The move has alarmed traditional-minded Catholics since Cupich has shown himself to be an extremely liberal bishop. In this role, Cupich will now exercise one of the most prominent roles in deciding who to appoint as new bishops in the United States. Cupich is said to have been hand-picked by Pope Francis for his prominent position as Archbishop of Chicago. Cupich will join Washington, D.C.’s Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who Pope Francis named to the congregation in Dece

Catholic Priests in Central Vietnam go up Against Government in Land Grab Case

July 7, 2016 breaking Comments Off on Catholic Priests in Central Vietnam go up Against Government in Land Grab Case

The head priest of a Catholic monastery in central Vietnam’s Thua Thien-Hue province has sent a petition to national and foreign officials in the country protesting what it says is the local government’s illegal appropriation of its land, RFA’s Vietnamese Service has learned. Antoine Nguyen Van Duc, head of Vietnam’s Thien An Catholic monastery sent the petition dated June 27 to the provincial People’s Committee, the Roman Catholic archdiocese in Hue, the European Union commission in Vietnam, and the U.S. embassy in Hanoi, complaining about the illegal seizure of land and the disrespectfulness authorities had shown to a cross. Hoang Ngoc Khanh, the director of Thua Thien-Hue People’s Committee office, told RFA that authorities there received the petition on the…Continue Reading