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Church’s teaching on male-only priesthood is ‘infallible’: Vatican doctrine chief

May 30, 2018 World News Comments Off on Church’s teaching on male-only priesthood is ‘infallible’: Vatican doctrine chief

ROME, May 29, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — The head of the Vatican office overseeing Church doctrine has insisted that the Church’s teaching on the male-only priesthood is “infallible,” and has offered a veiled rebuke of a prominent Cardinal who recently claimed the teaching could change. In an article set to appear in the Wednesday, May 30th edition of the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, Archbishop Luis Ladaria, SJ said the reservation of the ordained priesthoo

The revolt against Humanae Vitae continues to haunt us today

May 28, 2018 World News Comments Off on The revolt against Humanae Vitae continues to haunt us today

ROME, May 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — As in 2017, 2018 is also a year that is rich with important and significant anniversaries which we need to remember, because the roots of the present are found in the past. The best known anniversary needs no explanation; a date is enough: 1968, the Student Revolution that begins at Berkeley explodes at the Sorbonne and spreads throughout Europe. The 1968 Revolution was not a political revolution. It was a cultural revolution. Roger Kimball dedicated an interesting

Cardinal: Communion cannot be shared with non-Catholics like beer or cake

May 27, 2018 World News Comments Off on Cardinal: Communion cannot be shared with non-Catholics like beer or cake

BUCKFASTLEIGH, England, May 25, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — Protestants who want to receive Holy Communion should become Catholics, Cardinal Francis Arinze said this week, and added that “it is rather serious” to presume marriage can be dissolved for the purpose of receiving Communion. In an interview this week at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England, the cardinal emphatically objected to the idea of allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive Communion, as implied in Pope F

Speaker Ryan Proposes a Return to Catholic Social Doctrine at Prayer Breakfast

May 25, 2018 World News Comments Off on Speaker Ryan Proposes a Return to Catholic Social Doctrine at Prayer Breakfast

Washington, D.C. – House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast Thursday about how he believed the answer to many of the political problems society faces today, including “moral relativism” and “tribalism,” can be found in Catholic social teaching. “Public discourse has become more raucous than rational,” Ryan emphasized.

Judge rules ‘transgender’ high-schooler should have been allowed opposite-sex bathroom

May 25, 2018 World News Comments Off on Judge rules ‘transgender’ high-schooler should have been allowed opposite-sex bathroom

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, May 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A judge has ruled that a Virginia high school should have allowed a gender-confused former student to use the restrooms designated for the opposite sex. Gavin Grimm is a female Gloucester High School graduate who “identifies” as male, and has been the face of one of the co

One of the most ‘liberal abortion regimes’ if vote passes

May 24, 2018 World News Comments Off on One of the most ‘liberal abortion regimes’ if vote passes

Ireland will have one of the most liberal abortion regimes in Europe if Friday’s referendum is passed, the No campaign warned during its final press conference on Wednesday. With the broadcasting ban set to come into force on the eve of the referendum on Thursday, the Save the 8th campaign insisted the public would not support a proposal which allows abortion up to six months. “Under the proposal, you can have an abortion for any reason at all in the first 12 weeks of a baby’s life. You can then have an

Pope asks for prayers for Catholics in China

May 24, 2018 World News Comments Off on Pope asks for prayers for Catholics in China

Pope Francis has appealed to all Christians to be spiritually close to Catholics who live in China, and to pray they may live their faith in full communion with the Holy See. Speaking during the General Audience in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope recalled that on Thursday, May 24th, it is the Feast Day of “Mary Help of Christians”, whom – he said – is particularly venerated at the Sanctuary of Sheshan, in Shanghai. He said this observance invites us to be spiritually close to all Catholic believers who live in China and asked for

Life is the ‘true source of America’s greatness,’ President Trump tells pro-life gala

May 23, 2018 World News Comments Off on Life is the ‘true source of America’s greatness,’ President Trump tells pro-life gala

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — President Donald Trump affirmed the importance of the right to life and called on pro-life voters to help secure it Tuesday night, in his keynote address at the Susan B. Anthony List’s 11th annual Campaign for Life Gala. In a speech bookended by lengthy applause, Trump began by acknowledging many of the pro-life activists and lawm

Bishop Schneider: Priests who ‘bless’ gay unions will answer for it on Judgement Day

May 23, 2018 World News Comments Off on Bishop Schneider: Priests who ‘bless’ gay unions will answer for it on Judgement Day

May 21, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Clerics who “bless” homosexual unions are “reintroducing a kind of pagan temple prostitution,” which is “akin to apostasy,” Bishop Athanasius Schneider said in a newly-published interview addressing ongoing controversies and crises in the Catholic Church. Bishop Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan, spoke with Dr. Maike Hickson at OnePeterFive about whether female ordination is possible, Holy C

Cardinal Burke: Catholics must let Christ reign as King in face of ‘apostasy’ within Church

May 19, 2018 World News Comments Off on Cardinal Burke: Catholics must let Christ reign as King in face of ‘apostasy’ within Church

ROME, May 18, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Catholics must consciously place themselves under the “Kingship of Christ” in the face of enemies of the Church today attempting to “infiltrate the life of the Church herself and to corrupt the Bride of Christ by an apostasy from the Apostolic Faith,” Cardinal Raymond Burke indicated at a talk today in Rome. The Cardinal, one of the dubia signers and a foremost defender of orthodoxy within the Church today, told participan