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Trump admin asks Supreme Court to ‘discipline’ lawyers for rushing teen’s abortion

November 7, 2017 World News Comments Off on Trump admin asks Supreme Court to ‘discipline’ lawyers for rushing teen’s abortion

WASHINGTON, D.C., November 6, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to punish the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for lying to the government about the timeline of an underage illegal immigrant’s abortion. The DOJ is also asking the Supreme Court to throw out the lower court ruling that allowed “Jane Doe,” a 17-year-old in the custody of the U.S. government, to abort her baby. According to the brief the DOJ filed with the 

Christian nurse sues hospital for requiring her to assist abortions

November 5, 2017 World News Comments Off on Christian nurse sues hospital for requiring her to assist abortions

DURHAM, North Carolina, November 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – A Catholic nurse is suing Duke University Hospital, claiming that the university discriminated against her religious and pro-life beliefs by requiring her to assist in abortions. Sara T. Pedro was told during her employee orientation that Duke University Hospital provides no exceptions to employees in its Emergency Department who don’t want to participate in abortions. The lawsuit, filed by The Thomas More Law Center on Pedro’s behalf, says that Duke’s Emergency Department performs “a large number of abortions.”

It’s ‘impossible’ to change Catholic teaching against contraception: Cardinal

October 31, 2017 World News Comments Off on It’s ‘impossible’ to change Catholic teaching against contraception: Cardinal

ROME, October 28, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The Church’s teaching against contraception as expressed in Humanae Vitae is an “extraordinary example” of how the “truth of faith” deepens and develops while “continuing to be identical to itself,” Cardinal Walter Brandmüller stated at a conference in Rome today. Brandmüller made his remarks as he opened a conference titled Humanae Vitae at 50: Setting the Context that was organized by Voice of the Family. The conference took place at the Pontifical Uni

Thousands sign online petition to remove Madison’s bishop

October 30, 2017 World News Comments Off on Thousands sign online petition to remove Madison’s bishop

MADISON (WKOW) — There’s an online petition being circulated to remove the Bishop of the Diocese of Madison. Bishop Robert Morlino is being criticized for his attitude about the LGTBQ community.  Earlier this week, an email was sent to priests in the diocese saying that they could deny funeral rights for those in same-sex partnerships. The diocese released a statement that said the communication is not official policy, but does meet the approval of Bishop Morlino. The petition was posted on change.org Thursday and has thousands of signatures. Here is the statement from diocese on the matter, as submitted t

Pontifical Academy of Sciences welcomes leftist California Governor Jerry Brown to keynote

October 28, 2017 World News Comments Off on Pontifical Academy of Sciences welcomes leftist California Governor Jerry Brown to keynote

ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) – The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is again throwing open its doors to abortion and population control activists. From November 2–4, the Vatican’s scientific academy will host a conference on the environment that will feature, among others, far-left governor of California Jerry Brown, who promotes abortion and gay “marriage.”

Pope calls the “small glass palace” in space

October 27, 2017 World News Comments Off on Pope calls the “small glass palace” in space

Francis spoke for about 25 minutes with the astronauts of the International Space Station. “Thank you for representing the whole human family in the great research project of this space station,” he told them.

WISCONSIN DIOCESE CAUTIONS AGAINST FUNERAL RITES FOR ACTIVE GAYS

October 24, 2017 World News Comments Off on WISCONSIN DIOCESE CAUTIONS AGAINST FUNERAL RITES FOR ACTIVE GAYS

MADISON, Wis. (ChurchMilitant.com) – A Wisconsin diocese is advising priests to be careful with funerals for people who lived a homosexual lifestyle to avoid scandalizing the faithful. In a memo issued on October 21 by James Bartylla, vicar general of the diocese of Madison, headed by Bp. Robert Morlino, Bartylla addressed funerals in Catholic parishes for people who were in “a public union gravely contrary to the natural law,” specifically referring to homosexual civil unions. Although not authored by Bp. Morlino, a Madison diocese statemen

Ban on Communion for divorced and remarried is ‘absurd and inhuman’: Cardinal

October 22, 2017 World News Comments Off on Ban on Communion for divorced and remarried is ‘absurd and inhuman’: Cardinal

October 20, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin commended Catholics in new unions who bear witness to true matrimony by refraining from partaking in the Eucharist but clearly opened a door to those who feel they should receive communion while remaining in a second “marriage.” Cardinal Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon in France and Primate of the Gauls, held a special service last Sunday at his cathedral for Catholics from broken marriages. The event was designed to share reflections on the controversial c

Catholic youth: Thanks for asking our opinion, here’s what we think

October 20, 2017 World News Comments Off on Catholic youth: Thanks for asking our opinion, here’s what we think

A survey of nearly 900 local Catholic young adults shows they fear for the future, they want to do works of service and they want to gather with other young people in retreats, sports and in the Sunday Mass. The results of the survey in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia will join with similar surveys from other dioceses in the United States and become part of study materials used in the 2018 Synod of Bishops on youth that Pope Francis called for at the Vatican next fall. Father Matthew Guckin, of the archdiocesan Office for Catechetical Formation, prepared the survey earlier this year and presented it recent

Fr. Perrone: without an intense, devout life, Catholics will not survive the age

October 19, 2017 World News Comments Off on Fr. Perrone: without an intense, devout life, Catholics will not survive the age

The saintly priest, learned theologian, and catechist extraordinaire, Fr. John A. Hardon, was fond of saying that without an intense, devout life Catholics will not survive the age. I admit that at the time I thought this a ruse to shock his audience into taking their faith seriously. The longer I live in this age, however, the more I become convinced that this priest got it right. In recent decades we’ve seen great numbers of Catholics cease to practice their fai