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How the Catholic Church helped Canada elect its most pro-abortion prime minister in history

November 5, 2015 breaking Comments Off on How the Catholic Church helped Canada elect its most pro-abortion prime minister in history

OTTAWA, November 4, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – On a warm July night in 2001, a slender, 29-year-old, tousled-haired man paused to pray before taking the stage at Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square as thousands of young people wildly cheered. “I am Justin Trudeau,” he announced. “I am Catholic.” Thirteen years after this appearance at a kick-off event to the Catholic World Youth Day, Trudeau made another announcement, now as leader of the Liberal Party: Anyone opposed to abortion could not run as a Liberal candidate. And henceforth, Liberal MPs would be expected to vote “pro-choice.” In defending his unilateral and controversial edict, the eldest son of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau invoked his patrimony.

Tuning Out at the Homily

November 4, 2015 breaking Comments Off on Tuning Out at the Homily

Rome, November 03, 2015 (ZENIT.org) Father Edward McNamara Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and dean of theology at the Regina Apostolorum university. Q: Is listening to the Sunday homily necessary to fulfill one’s Sunday obligation? Sometimes for personal reasons I do not feel inclined to listen to the homily of a particular priest as I feel very strongly about his sincerity and because he doesn’t practice what he preaches. — R.C., Mumbai, India A: Canon law obliges the celebrant to prepare and deliver a homily at each Sunday Mass, or at least entrust the deacon or another priest to do so. To wit: “767 §1. Among the forms of preaching the homily is pre-eminent;…Continue Reading

Administration Silent as University-Sponsored Paper Endorses Assisted Suicide, Abortion, Gay Marriage, Contraception

November 3, 2015 breaking Comments Off on Administration Silent as University-Sponsored Paper Endorses Assisted Suicide, Abortion, Gay Marriage, Contraception

November 2, 2015, at 8:36 AM  |  By Adam Cassandra  | The editorial staff at the University of San Francisco’s official student paper, the San Francisco Foghorn, issued statements in opposition to Catholic teaching in recent months supporting assisted suicide, the right to an abortion, contraceptive use, Planned Parenthood and same-sex marriage without any public efforts from administrators to rebuke the publication and protect the University’s Catholic identity posted either online or in response to questions from The Cardinal Newman Society. “All of our staff members believe that assisted suicide should be legalized for terminally ill people who truly believe that it is the only option they have left,” an October 15 Foghorn staff editorial stated, celebrating the legalization of…Continue Reading

Pope Francis: there are many saints to be found in everyday life

November 2, 2015 breaking Comments Off on Pope Francis: there are many saints to be found in everyday life

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis today celebrated All Saints Day telling the faithful that there are many saints to be found in ordinary life and that they are examples to be followed. Speaking to the crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the recitation of the Angelus, the Pope said saints are people who belong entirely to God, they carry the seal of God in their lives and on their persons. Pointing out that we are all children of God and that we received the seal of our heavenly father with the sacrament of Baptism, Pope Francis said that saints are those who have lived their lives in the grace of Baptism, keeping that seal intact, behaving like children of God,…Continue Reading

Pope Francis: Martyrdom is a grace from God

October 31, 2015 breaking Comments Off on Pope Francis: Martyrdom is a grace from God

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis greeted pilgrims from El Salvador who came to the Vatican on Friday to thank the Holy Father for beatifying Archbishop Oscar Romero in May of this year. 500 people including Bishops, priests, religious, lay people and seminarians from El Salvador came to the Vatican on Friday to say quite simply “Thank You” to Pope Francis for beatifying Archbishop Oscar Romero in May 2015. The Archbishop was shot dead as he celebrated Mass in a hospital chapel on 24 March 1980. Speaking to the pilgrims gathered, Pope Francis said Oscar Romero’s life was taken violently, while he was celebrating the Eucharist, a supreme sacrifice of love, sealing with his blood the announcement of the Gospel. At the…Continue Reading

Pope: God can only love and not condemn

October 30, 2015 breaking Comments Off on Pope: God can only love and not condemn

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis says God can only love and not condemn and that love is His weakness and our victory. He said we are so closely bound to God’s love that nothing can sever us from it. That was the message at the heart of the Pope’s homily delivered on Thursday (29th October) at the Santa Marta residence. Taking his cue from St Paul’s letter to the Romans, Pope Francis’s homily was a reflection on God’s unwavering love for us and how no person, or power or thing can separate us from this love. He said St Paul explains how Christians are the victors because “if God is for us, who can be against us.” This gift from God,…Continue Reading

INTERVIEW: Hindu Leader: Catholic Church Sets Example Other Religions Should Follow

October 29, 2015 breaking Comments Off on INTERVIEW: Hindu Leader: Catholic Church Sets Example Other Religions Should Follow

Scholar Praises Spirit of ‘Nostra Aetate,’ Pope Francis; Says Religion Should Bring Out Best in Peopl Vatican City, October 29, 2015 (ZENIT.org) Deborah Castellano Lubov With Nostra Aetate, the Roman Catholic Church has set an example and other religions should likewise open their doors. This was the sentiment of Hindu Swami Chidananda Saraswati, as he praised the spirit of Nostra Aetate, and the leadership, warmth and humility of Pope Francis. Nostra Aetate was promulgated by Pope Paul VI on Oct. 28, 1965, and on Wednesday, Pope Francis held an “interreligious general audience” to mark the anniversary. As the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Church’s relation to Non-Christian religions, the document condemned anti-semitism in all its forms and signified an opening…Continue Reading

Synod’s Final Document: ‘We Continue on Our Path’

October 28, 2015 breaking Comments Off on Synod’s Final Document: ‘We Continue on Our Path’

Staff Reporter |  Oct 26 |  ZENIT.org The Synod Fathers approved by 177 votes out of 265, a two-thirds majority, the final Relatio of the 14th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod on the Family, made up of 94 paragraphs, each one of which was voted on individually. The director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., gave a briefing on the document, which was authorised for publication in Italian by Pope Francis. Fr. Lombardi remarked that the text takes into account the many difficulties faced by the family, but also its great capacity for facing and reacting to them. The conclusive document of the Synod includes many of the amendments to the Instrumentum Laboris…Continue Reading

Synod’s final report ‘misleading,’ lacks ‘clarity’ on indissolubility of marriage: Cardinal Burke

October 27, 2015 breaking Comments Off on Synod’s final report ‘misleading,’ lacks ‘clarity’ on indissolubility of marriage: Cardinal Burke

ROME, October 26, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Raymond Burke is raising serious concerns about the Synod on the Family’s final report, saying it is misleading and lacks clarity on a crucial Church teaching. In comments to the National Catholic Register’s Edward Pentin, Burke took issue with the section titled “Discernment and Integration” —paragraphs 84-86 — which deals with baptized Catholics who are civilly divorced and remarried. The section, he says, is “of immediate concern, because of its lack of clarity in a fundamental matter of the faith: the indissolubility of the marriage bond which both reason and faith teach all men.” The Synod’s final report, which carries no magisterial weight and does not alter doctrine or previous discipline regarding Communion…Continue Reading

Pope Francis: homily at closing Mass for Synod Assembly

October 25, 2015 breaking Comments Off on Pope Francis: homily at closing Mass for Synod Assembly

(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis delivered the homily at Mass being offered on Sunday morning, the 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, to mark the close of the XIV Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, who have been gathered in Rome for the past three weeks to reflect on and discuss the vocation and mission of the family in the Church and in the contemporary world. Below, please find the official English translation of the Holy Father’s prepared remarks *************************************************************** Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis Holy Mass for the Closing of the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, 25 October 2015 The three Readings for this Sunday show us God’s compassion, his…Continue Reading