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Trump Unleashes Military Strikes on Syria Over Chemical Attack

April 13, 2018 World News Comments Off on Trump Unleashes Military Strikes on Syria Over Chemical Attack

President Donald Trump said he had approved military strikes on Syria in retaliation for an apparent chemical attack by the regime of Bashar al-Assad on a rebel town. “A short time ago I ordered the United States armed forces to launch precision strikes” on targets associated with Syria chemical weapons, Trump said in remarks Friday night. Trump said the strikes would be carried out in coordination with France and the U.K. Trump’s statement on U.S. policy toward Syria came after days

Full text of Pope Francis’ letter to Chilean bishops

April 12, 2018 World News Comments Off on Full text of Pope Francis’ letter to Chilean bishops

Vatican City, Apr 11, 2018 / 04:16 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a letter addressed to Chile’s bishops, Pope Francis admitted to making “serious mistakes” in handling the nation’s massive sex abuse crisis and asked for forgiveness. The pope summoned Chile’s bishops to Rome to address the issue, and invited victims to meet with him as well. Referring to a recent investigation of abuse c

Citing growing interest in Traditional Latin Mass, Archbishop Chaput creates quasi-parish

April 12, 2018 World News Comments Off on Citing growing interest in Traditional Latin Mass, Archbishop Chaput creates quasi-parish

Philadelphia, Pa., Apr 12, 2018 / 12:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- A new quasi-parish for Catholics interested in the Traditional Latin Mass will open in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia at a church that had been part of a 2014 parish merger. “In response to a growing interest, it has become timely to provide additional pastoral care for those wishing to participate in Divine Worship in the Extraordinary Form,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput’s

Cecile Richards speaking at Catholic university in SF Archdiocese

April 11, 2018 World News Comments Off on Cecile Richards speaking at Catholic university in SF Archdiocese

Cecile Richards, a national leader for women’s rights and social and economic justice, has been added to the Institute for Leadership Studies (ILS) 2018 Spring Leadership Lecture Series at Dominican University of California. The series is presented by Dominican in partnership with Book Passage. Ms. Richards, who recently announced that she is retiring as president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, is scheduled to speak at Do

Pope Francis releases exhortation on holiness

April 9, 2018 World News Comments Off on Pope Francis releases exhortation on holiness

VATICAN CITY — God calls all Christians to be saints — not plastic statues of saints, but real people who make time for prayer and who show loving care for others in the simplest gestures, Pope Francis said in his new document on holiness.   “Do not be afraid of holiness. It will take away none of your energy, vitality or joy,” the pope wrote in “Gaudete et Exsultate”(“Rejoice and Be Glad”), his apostolic exhortation on “the call to holiness in today’s world.” Pope Francis signed the exhortation March 19, the fea

Cuomo Loots A Catholic Charity

April 9, 2018 World News Comments Off on Cuomo Loots A Catholic Charity

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a disturbing new way to raise revenue: using government muscle to squeeze private organizations into “voluntarily” writing billion-dollar checks. That’s what he did to Fidelis Care, a nonprofit health plan affiliated with the Catholic Church, and its would-be buyer, Centene Corp.

Chappaquiddick And Us

April 8, 2018 World News Comments Off on Chappaquiddick And Us

Ah, you can always predict The New York Times;  from covering up the crimes of Stalin, courtesy of their Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Walter Duranty, their goal is to ever protect the left.  Thus, it is unsurprising that they published a hit piece on the movie Chappaquiddick (2018) by Kennedy biographer Neil Gabler: The film, by the same name, opened Friday and retells the story of an accident in July 1969, on the titular Massachusetts island near Martha’s Vineyard, in which Mr. Kennedy drove off a bridge, killing his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, a campa

Catholic morality has been replaced by a destructive sexuality

April 8, 2018 World News Comments Off on Catholic morality has been replaced by a destructive sexuality

During the course of his journalistic and literary career, Cork writer Seán O’Faoláin (1900-1991) was fond of lists, often with a view to lampooning the excessive strictures of his era. He was 20-years-old and a university student before he learned how childbirth happened, later bemoaning that pious elders had sent his generation “naked to the wolf of li

Condom giveaways, needle exchanges—Are Catholic hospitals called to more?

April 8, 2018 World News Comments Off on Condom giveaways, needle exchanges—Are Catholic hospitals called to more?

Cincinnati, Ohio, Apr 8, 2018 / 06:00 am (CNA).- A clean needle exchange program that distributes condoms is hosted in the parking lot of an Ohio Catholic hospital, and one Catholic bioethicist thinks the system can do better. “I would say Catholics are called to more. At a minimum, Christ articulated a higher standard for moral life than what other people are doing,” Catholic bioethicist John Brehany told CNA April 4, addressing the needle exchange aspect in particular. The hospital statement justifying the pr

Until organ traffickers are brought to justice, Vatican should not praise China: expert

April 7, 2018 World News Comments Off on Until organ traffickers are brought to justice, Vatican should not praise China: expert

FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, April 6, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — An authority on China says that it’s “naive” to assume the country’s communist regime is telling the truth when it says it has stopped harvesting organs from prisoners. Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute and author of Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order, told LifeSiteNews that China’s human rights record is “one of the