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District Attorney Searches Houston Archdiocese

November 30, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on District Attorney Searches Houston Archdiocese

HOUSTON (CNA/EWTN News) — Investigators have executed a search warrant on the chancery offices of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston. A search warrant obtained by the district attorney’s office for Montgomery County was served Wednesday morning, November 28 by officers from the Texas Rangers and Conroe Police Department. The district attorney’s office said on November 28 that it is seeking documents related to the case of Fr. Manuel La Rosa-Lopez, who was arrested by Conroe police in September on four charges of indecency to children. Montgomery County prosecutor Brett Ligon told reporters that the archdiocese has cooperated with the investigation, KHOU 11 News reported. “This is not a shot at the Catholic Church . . . this is an investigation into…Continue Reading

Archbishop Desfarges Says… Algerian Martyrs Are Models For The Church

November 29, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Archbishop Desfarges Says… Algerian Martyrs Are Models For The Church

ALGIERS, Algeria (CNA/EWTN News) — Archbishop Paul Desfarges of Algiers has said that Bishop Pierre Claverie and his 18 companions, who were martyred in Algeria between 1994 and 1996, are “models for our lives as disciples today and tomorrow.” The Algerian martyrs will be beatified December 8 at the Shrine of Our Lady of the Holy Cross in Oran. “The beatification of our brothers and sisters is a grace for our Church,” Archbishop Desfarges wrote in a November pastoral letter. He urged the local Church “to love as they did in the freedom that the Holy Spirit gives” because the martyrs “go before us on the path of witness that our Church is called to give in this land of…Continue Reading

A Book Review… A Terrific And Affordable Christmas Gift

November 28, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on A Book Review… A Terrific And Affordable Christmas Gift

By REY FLORES Catholic Traditions and Treasures: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, written by Dr. Helen Hoffner, and illustrated by Deirdre Folley; hardcover; 144 pages. Published by Sophia Institute Press is available for purchase at www.SophiaInstitute.com and other online and brick and mortar retailers. There are books and movies which I sometimes review, then there are books and movies I love to review. This book is one of the latter. Catholic Traditions and Treasures: An Illustrated Encyclopedia is just that. An encyclopedia which is chockfull of Catholic history and traditions which many of us still participate in, but sadly many of these devotions and practices have been forgotten, neglected, or both. A tradition cannot be passed on to a child if the…Continue Reading

Deconstructing Creation

November 27, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Deconstructing Creation

By DONALD DeMARCO Margaret Ann Vosper, better known as Gretta Vosper, is an ordained minister of the United Church of Canada. She is a self-professed atheist. Not surprisingly, her rejection of any belief in God has caused some controversy. Nonetheless, a recent decision by church authorities has given Rev. Vosper security in her role serving a Christian community. The United Church of Canada was founded in 1925 as a merger of Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists. At that time, it claimed a membership of 6.25 percent of the Canadian population. By 2009, its adherents dropped to 1.4 percent, according to its own published figures. Between 1968 and 2009, it lost more than half of its membership. The question that prevails is…Continue Reading

Cardinal Cupich And Cardinal Wuerl . . . Collaborated On Alternative Sex Abuse Proposal

November 26, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Cardinal Cupich And Cardinal Wuerl . . . Collaborated On Alternative Sex Abuse Proposal

By ED CONDON WASHINGTON, D.C. (CNA) – Blase Cardinal Cupich of Chicago and Donald Cardinal Wuerl of Washington, D.C., collaborated extensively on a recently proposed policy for handling abuse allegations against bishops, Catholic News Agency has learned. Cupich submitted the plan November 13 to leaders of the U.S. bishops’ conference, proffering it as an alternative to a proposal that had been devised by conference officials and staffers. The conference’s proposed plan would have established an independent lay-led commission to investigate allegations against bishops. The Cupich-Wuerl plan would instead send allegations against bishops to be investigated by their metropolitan archbishops, along with archdiocesan review boards. Metropolitans themselves would be investigated by their senior suffragan bishops. Sources in Rome and Washington, D.C.,…Continue Reading

Will Democratic Rebels Dethrone Nancy?

November 25, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Will Democratic Rebels Dethrone Nancy?

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN After adding at least 37 seats and taking control of the House by running on change, congressional Democrats appear to be about to elect as their future leaders three of the oldest faces in the party. Nancy Pelosi of California and Steny Hoyer of Maryland have led the House Democrats for 16 years. For 12 years, they have been joined in the leadership triumvirate by Jim Clyburn of South Carolina. If these three emerge as speaker, majority leader, and majority whip, all three Democratic leaders will be older than our oldest president, Ronald Reagan, was when he went home after two terms. By 2020’s election, all three House leaders would be over 80. Was this gerontocracy…Continue Reading

Winona Diocese . . . File For Bankruptcy Amid Abuse Lawsuits

November 24, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Winona Diocese . . . File For Bankruptcy Amid Abuse Lawsuits

By CHRISTINE ROUSSELLE WINONA, Minn. (CNA/EWTN News) — The Diocese of Winona-Rochester will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, it was announced Sunday, November 18. Bishop John Quinn wrote a letter explaining the decision, which was distributed in bulletins throughout the diocese. In a recorded video statement posted on the diocesan website, Quinn said he was sorry, and that on behalf of his brother priests, he “offer(s) an apology to these survivors and acknowledge their pain and suffering,” and pledged to “remain vigilant” to prevent abuse in the future. He also said it was important to create an “environment of healing” for both abuse survivors and their families. Quinn explained that due to the 121 claims of child sexual abuse by…Continue Reading

Pregnancy Center… Makes Room For The Other Parent In The Picture

November 23, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Pregnancy Center… Makes Room For The Other Parent In The Picture

By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Crisis-pregnancy centers may have a complex task helping moms in need prepare for their babies’ arrival, but there’s someone else in the picture, even if he’s over on the edge of the family portrait. “All of these women who come in pregnant — there’s a man somewhere, and his needs likely are not being met,” a retired physician who created a men’s program at the First Way Pregnancy Center here (1stway.net) told The Wanderer in a November 10 interview. James Asher, DO, said that Kay Allen, a previous executive director at First Way, asked him to start the men’s program a few years ago, and it’s one of a few in the nation. “Men’s programs…Continue Reading

St. Cecilia And A Truth Worth Dying For

November 22, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on St. Cecilia And A Truth Worth Dying For

By JAMES MONTI This year Thanksgiving Day falls on November 22. Here in the United States, a Mass of Thanksgiving in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite will pre-empt what is normally celebrated on this day. But elsewhere around the world, and in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, it will again be the memorial of a young Roman bride who had resolved in life and in death to remain a bride of Christ. In the basilica of Rome that bears her name and guards her tomb, the altar will be decorated for this feast with white and red flowers in testimony to who she was and what she died for. And at the center of the sanctuary,…Continue Reading

Great War Remembered, But Lessons Forgotten

November 21, 2018 Featured Today Comments Off on Great War Remembered, But Lessons Forgotten

By JOHN J. METZLER MONTREAL — World leaders met in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which ended the Great War in 1918. The solemn gathering, convened by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, saw 80 heads of state, among them President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. History tells us that at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, November, the guns finally fell silent after four years of conflict and carnage which caused the deaths of 18 million people. Here in Montreal under cold and leaden skies, Remembrance Day ceremonies offered a poignant reminder of the sacrifice and loss of…Continue Reading