Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar 12, 2018 / 03:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An event hosted by the University of Cincinnati on faith and the LGBT community has dropped ‘Catholicism’ from its label after the local bishop sent an email to all diocesan priests and deacons, reiterating that the event did not have diocesan approval. The event was originally titled: “Building Bridges: A Dialogue on Faith, Catholicism, and the LGBTQ Community.”
WASHINGTON D.C., March 9, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Zen was on fire Thursday night as he spoke with Raymond Arroyo on EWTN’s The World Over. “We now know that one of President Xi’s goals is to inculcate communist thought and blend it with theology,” said Arroyo. “Are you concerned that the Vatican is playing into his hands? His stated goal is to blen
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 8, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Abortion organizations received approximately $1.6 billion of U.S. taxpayer money from 2013 to 2015, according to a new government report. This report comes from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which examined federal funding for providers of “preventive, reproductive, and diagnostic health care services in the United States or abroad.” According to the report, during the fiscal years 2013 to 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) gave away a total of roughly $27 billion in
It is a strange thing, to see papers in Italy wondering what happened to the “Catholic vote” in this month’s general elections. In a country where basically everyone is Catholic, yet very few people go to church, the question ought to be: is there a Catholic vote to speak of? As journalist Danilo Paolini explained in the pages of Avvenire, the Italian bishops’ official newspaper, “Catholics involved in politics can be found in most of the political forces that took part in the el
JACKSON, Mississippi, March 6, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The Mississippi Senate voted 35 to 14 today to ban abortions on babies older than 15 weeks. The bill passed the Mississippi House 79-31 last month. The bill will go back to the House for concurrence because senators removed a portion of the bill making it a felony for doctors to abort babies older than 15 weeks. However, it still retains strong protections that hold rogue doctors accountable for irresponsibly risking women’s health. If Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signs the bill into law, Mississippi will become the state with the most protective pro-life laws i
March 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Formulating pastoral practices based on “individual cases” is a “rhetorical trick” that undermines the unity of the faith, said Cardinal Gerhard Müller in an interview published last week in German and translated into English by LifeSiteNews. “That is why papal and episcopal statements on the reception of the Sacraments have to be prepared in such a clear manner that they serve the s
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – An Irish government official has warned the country’s Catholic Church that homosexual partners should be “celebrated and not excluded” from the upcoming World Meeting of Families (WMOF) in Dublin later this year. Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone said she hopes the event “will not be used as a platform for remarks which exclude, isolate or hurt any family,” and that “the event organized by the
Washington D.C., Mar 3, 2018 / 03:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Archdiocese of Washington has released a pastoral plan aiming to implement Amoris Laetitiawithin the archdiocese. Amoris Laetitia is the post-synodal apostolic exhortation published by Pope Francis in April of 2016 following two episcopal synods on the family. The Archdiocesan pastoral plan focuses primarily on encouraging marriages are open to life; the ministry of accompaniment; building welcoming parish communities; and combating challenges posed by m
Pope Francis has decreed that the ancient devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Mother of the Church, be inserted into the Roman Calendar. The liturgical celebration, B. Mariæ Virginis, Ecclesiæ Matris, will be celebrated annually as a Memorial on the day after Pentecost. In a decree released on Saturday by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Robert Sarah, its Prefect, said the Pope’s decision took account of the tradition surrounding the devotion to Mary as Mother of the Church.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Pope Francis has deliberately created confusion to allow for Catholic teaching to be circumvented, a longtime Catholic commentator has said, and Francis’ inner circle contains people more radical in their beliefs than him. Further, five years into Francis’ papacy, the mandate the pope was given to reform the Curia and Vatican finances has not been satisfied, Catholic World News Editor Philip Lawler said, because it’s not high o