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Pope Francis surveys bishops worldwide on Traditional Latin Mass

April 24, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Pope Francis surveys bishops worldwide on Traditional Latin Mass

April 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – An leaked letter allegedly sent by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to the presidents of bishops’ conferences inquiring about the experience with Pope Benedict XVI’s allowance of the traditional Latin Mass (Summorum Pontificum) has caused a stir in some traditionally-minded Catholic circles. Fears abound that the result of the survey could be a restriction of the Latin Mass. The traditional Catholic website Rorate Caeli published yesterday a letter dated March 7, 2020, with the name of Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), on it. The letter addresses the presidents of the bishops’ conferences and includes a set of questions to bishops whose due…Continue Reading

Suit aims to close Texas abortion mills using up protective gear in coronavirus pandemic

April 23, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Suit aims to close Texas abortion mills using up protective gear in coronavirus pandemic

FORT WORTH, Texas, April 22, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Thomas More Society has filed a lawsuit against the City of Fort Worth, Mayor Betsy Price, and two abortion vendors, seeking an immediate injunction to prevent abortion providers from consuming the personal protective equipment that is in short supply and desperately needed by the medical personnel on the front lines fighting the ravages of COVID-19 and the spread of the deadly disease. The complaint charges that Price and the City of Fort Worth are violating Texas law by suspending non-emergency surgeries and procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic while allowing elective abortions to continue. Mayor Price’s April 7, 2020 stay-at-home order prohibits all elective medical, surgical, and dental procedures within city limits. Meanwhile, abortion…Continue Reading

Cardinal Burke criticizes Vatican for thanking China but not Taiwan

April 22, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Cardinal Burke criticizes Vatican for thanking China but not Taiwan

VATICAN CITY, April 21, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Raymond Burke has criticized the Holy See for publicly thanking communist China for its generosity but remaining silent about Taiwan’s after both nations donated much-needed medical supplies to the Vatican. “Something is badly wrong’’ with China seemingly enjoying “a place of privilege with the Vatican,’’ Burke told The Australian. “The Holy See made a point to praise the People’s Republic of China for sending masks and medical equipment to the Vatican, while it has not acknowledged in any public way th

Kentucky legislators pass pro-life bills, slam governor for failing to restrict abortion during COVID-19

April 19, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Kentucky legislators pass pro-life bills, slam governor for failing to restrict abortion during COVID-19

Two bills have passed the Kentucky legislature, and both have drawn the ire of the abortion industry. While both the state House and the Senate have approved the bills, Governor Andy Beshear has yet to sign them. House Bill 451 would give Attorney General Daniel Cameron the authority to ban abortions and enforce abortion restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also classifies abortion as an elective procedure. According to Sen. Whitney Westerfield, this bill wouldn’t need to be passed if Beshear had taken action. “If he would actually step up and do the job he’s been elected to do and enforce his own order, we wouldn’t have to put this language in this bill,” he said to WFPL. AG Cameron likewise sa

130+ congressmen urge Trump to keep ban on aborted fetal tissue research in race for COVID-19 cure

April 16, 2020 breaking Comments Off on 130+ congressmen urge Trump to keep ban on aborted fetal tissue research in race for COVID-19 cure

WASHINGTON, DC, April 15, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – More than 130 members of Congress urged President Donald Trump “to maintain your current fetal tissue research policy and to redirect funds toward ethical, successful alternatives to combat COVID-19.” The pro-life representatives, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, thanked Trump in an April 14 letter for his “decisive actions to protect human life and human dignity on every front,” praising him for having brought “great hope to our nation.” In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States, it has been argued by some that Trump’

Cardinal Pell: ‘Senior people in Rome’ believe Vatican officials linked to my imprisonment

April 14, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Cardinal Pell: ‘Senior people in Rome’ believe Vatican officials linked to my imprisonment

AUSTRALIA, April 14, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal George Pell has said that senior people in Rome believe his conviction and imprisonment in Australia was related to the trouble he was causing to “corrupt officials in the Vatican” as he led the financial reforms. In an interview released today with Australia’s Sky News, host Andrew Bolt asks Pell whether he had ever considered that the trouble he was causing to corrupt officials in the Vatican was related to the troubles he has since experienced in Australia. Pell responded: “Most of the senior people in Rome who are in any way sympathetic to financi

Our Savior Is Risen . . .

April 12, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Our Savior Is Risen . . .

Jesus said: I am the resurrection. Anyone who believes in me, even though that person dies, will live, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die…-John 11:25-26

Cdl. Pell unanimously acquitted of sex abuse charge by Australian High Court, will be freed

April 6, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Cdl. Pell unanimously acquitted of sex abuse charge by Australian High Court, will be freed

CANBERRA, Australia, April 6, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The High Court of Australia has acquitted Cardinal George Pell of his convictions of historic child sexual abuse and ordered his release from prison, in a unanimous descion by the court’s seven justices. “I hold no ill will to my accuser,” Pell said in a statement. “I do not want my acquital to add to the hurt and bitterness so many feel.

See What the End Shall Be – A Homily for Palm Sunday

April 5, 2020 breaking Comments Off on See What the End Shall Be – A Homily for Palm Sunday

The Passion, which we read in the liturgy for Palm Sunday, is too long to comment on in detail, so we will only examine a portion of it here. It may be of some value to examine the problems associated with the more moderate range of personalities involved. The usual villains (the Temple leaders, Judas, and the recruited crowd shouting, “Crucify him!”) are unambiguously wicked and display their sinfulness openly. But there are others involved whose struggles and neglectfulness are more subtle, yet no less real. It is in examining these figures that we can learn a great deal about ourselves, who, tho

Vatican theologian: Pandemic is God’s chastisement for ‘infidelity’ of top Catholic shepherds

April 4, 2020 breaking Comments Off on Vatican theologian: Pandemic is God’s chastisement for ‘infidelity’ of top Catholic shepherds

April 3, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Italian priest and theologian Nicola Bux has identified both the sins within the Church as well as the sins of the world as the root of the current pandemic and its effects on the daily life of Catholics. Like Archbishop Viganò and Bishop Schneider, the former consulter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith characterized COVID-19 as a chastisement from God. In a lengthy statement published as a video on YouTube March 24, as well as by Chiesa e post concilio in written form, Bux said “we can read this virus as ‘a sign of the times,’ in the sense above all of a warning to the world.” “We must now abstain, as a punishment,” he explained, “from so many…Continue Reading