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Pope Francis: ‘Catholic Church committed to protecting migrants’

June 12, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Pope Francis: ‘Catholic Church committed to protecting migrants’

(Vatican Radio)  Pope Francis has sent a message to the President of the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (Parlatino) on the occasion of its 33rd General Assembly. Addressing his letter to Ms. Blanca Alcalá, the Parlatino president, Pope Francis reflects on migration in Latin America and the Caribbean, the theme of the Assembly. He said the initiative “aims to help and make life more dignified for those who, having a homeland, regrettably do not find in their countries adequate conditions of security and subsistence, and are compelled to migrate to other places.” The Holy Father goes on to highlight three words related to migration: reality, dialogue, and commitment. Related to reality, he said that behind every emigrant lies “a human…Continue Reading

Cardinal Cupich: Amoris Laetitia is a call for an ‘adult spirituality’ where we ‘discern’ what is true

June 10, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Cardinal Cupich: Amoris Laetitia is a call for an ‘adult spirituality’ where we ‘discern’ what is true

CHICAGO, June 9, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — American Cardinal Blase Cupich has interpreted Pope Francis’ controversial Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia as a call for Catholics to graduate from “an adolescent spirituality into an adult spirituality” where they will be able to use their “freedom of conscience” to “discern truth” in their life. “What it [Amoris Laetitia] does is it really asked people to have an adult spirituality,” Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, said in an interview with Salt and Light’s Fr. Thomas Rosica that was published June 4 via a YouTube video.

Polish Bishops’ Conference: No Communion for the “Remarried”

June 8, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Polish Bishops’ Conference: No Communion for the “Remarried”

Yesterday, 7 June, the Polish Bishops’ Conference ended its General Assembly in the Polish city of Zakopane. According to the official website of the German bishops Katholisch.de, the speaker of the Polish Bishops’ Conference, Pawel Rytel-Andrianik said that the teaching of the Church with regard to Holy Communion for those people who live in non-sacramental relationships “has not changed” after the papal document Amoris Laetitia. In their public declaration, the Polish bishops explained that Catholics in such relationships should be led “to a true conversion and to a reconciliation with their spouse and the children of that bond.” Here, the Polish bishops refer to Pope John Paul II’s post-synodal exhortation Familiaris Consortio which allows access to the Sacraments only if…Continue Reading

Catholic schools ordered to stop kids’ confession behind closed doors

June 8, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Catholic schools ordered to stop kids’ confession behind closed doors

Catholic schools have been ordered to stop hearing childrens’ confessions behind closed doors, as Melbourne Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart responds to new child safety rules. In a directive issued in November last year, Archbishop Hart asked Catholic school principals and parish priests to conduct confessions “in an open setting in the full view of all participants, who are supervised by staff”.

Speak up for the voiceless, Pence encourages Catholic prayer breakfast

June 7, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Speak up for the voiceless, Pence encourages Catholic prayer breakfast

Washington D.C., Jun 6, 2017 / 12:13 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- United States Vice President Mike Pence exhorted those in attendance at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday to continue to be a “voice for the voiceless”, after proclaiming that “life is winning” in the nation. “Life is winning in America. Life is winning through the steady advance of science that continues to illuminate more and more when life begins,”  Pence told the audience in Washington, D.C., June 6. He added that the pro-life cause is advancing also “t

Gay Pride parades are turning into anti-Trump resistance marches

June 6, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Gay Pride parades are turning into anti-Trump resistance marches

June 5, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – The theme of gay pride parades around the country this year will make a dramatic switch from celebrating homosexuality, trangenderism, and all the recent LGBT judicial wins to a militant call to resist what organizers regard as oppressive societal and government forces. Parades will no longer be parades; they are “resistance marches.” It seems switching parade identity is as easy as switching gender identity. And why the sudden urgency to beat plowshares into swords? No one seems to be able to articulate the call to arms clearly. It appears many folks are still unhappy that neither Hillary Clinton nor Bernie Sanders won the 2016 election, and that because a white male with a beautiful wife…Continue Reading

Harvard Law Journal Concludes Unborn Babies Have Constitutional Rights

June 4, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Harvard Law Journal Concludes Unborn Babies Have Constitutional Rights

The Fourteenth Amendment, which was adopted in 1868, declares that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” A debate that has been raging in courtrooms for years is whether the “life” part includes unborn persons. Harvard Law student Joshua Craddock did some constitutional soul searching to answer that question in a new report for the Harvard Law Journal, concluding that unborn babies do fall under the Fourteenth Amendment’s protections. One might look to dictionaries of legal and common usage, the context of the English common law tradition, and cases that attempted to

Pelosi Says Withdrawing from Climate Deal Dishonors God

June 3, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Pelosi Says Withdrawing from Climate Deal Dishonors God

(CNSNews.com) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said at a press briefing today that withdrawing the United States from the Paris Accord on climate change dishonors God. “The Bible tells us that to minister to the needs of God’s creation is an act of worship,” Pelosi said. “To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us and that is just what we are doing by walking away from this accord.” Here is an excerpt from Pelosi’s briefing: And we have a moral responsibility in addition to our national security, our economy and the good health of ou

Trump’s decision to abandon Paris climate pact called ‘deeply troubling’

June 2, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Trump’s decision to abandon Paris climate pact called ‘deeply troubling’

WASHINGTON (CNS) — President Donald Trump’s June 1 decision “not to honor the U.S. commitment” to the Paris climate agreement “is deeply troubling,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace. “The Scriptures affirm the value of caring for creation and caring for each other in solidarity. The Paris agreement is an international accord that promotes these values,” Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, New Mexico, said in a statement released shortly after the president made his announcement in the White House Rose Garden. “President Trump’s decision will harm the people of t

Trump Rolls Back Birth-Control Mandate in Name of ‘Religious Freedom’ — and This Nun Is Angry

May 31, 2017 breaking Comments Off on Trump Rolls Back Birth-Control Mandate in Name of ‘Religious Freedom’ — and This Nun Is Angry

 Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy  Yahoo News Ever since the Trump administration’s quiet announcement that it has begun, in the name of “religious freedom,” to roll back a federal rule requiring most employers’ insurance plans to cover birth control at no cost to women, the expected feminist champions have expressed disapproval. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called it “sickening,” for example. And Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights said the move “will hurt women” and has vowed to fight it in court. But now some prominent Catholics have been speaking out as well — including Sister Simone Campbell, the 71-year old nun, lawyer, and public policy advocate who serves as the executive director of Network, the national Catholic social justice lobby. “One of the big tenets of…Continue Reading