Saturday 20th April 2024
In an interview with Italy’s Corriere della Sera, Pope Francis says he is a normal person, not superman, and speaks about the family, child abuse, foreign trips, relations with the Orthodox, China, and how he governs the Church Gerard O’Connell Rome “The Pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps peacefully, and has friends like everyone else. A normal person”, Francis said in an interview with the chief-editor of Italy’s leading daily, Corriere della Sera, Ferruccio de Bortoli, published today. “I like to be among people, to be with the one who is suffering, to go into the parishes”, he stated. But he denied that he has gone out at night to feed the down and outs near the Vatican.…Continue Reading
By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter March 4, 2014|1:53 pm The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church has called on the people to be ready to sacrifice their lives to protect the country’s freedom, as the threat of a Russian attack looms over the horizon. “Ukraine, unfortunately, has been pulled into a military conflict. So far no one is shooting, so far people are not dying, but it is obvious that military intervention has already begun,” Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych said in a statement over the weekend, Catholic News Service reported on Monday. “Our people and our country are currently in danger,” the archbishop added. “We must stand up for our country, to be ready — if necessary —…Continue Reading
The CWR Blog March 03, 2014 10:22 EST By Michael J. Miller Bishop Michael Olson (CNS photo) The Traditionalist blogosphere is abuzz, again, with the story of the latest “injustice” done to Catholics who are devoted to Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. A letter from the bishop of Fort Worth, TX, dated February 24, 2014, to Mr. Michael King, president of Fisher More College, was leaked to the Rorate Caeli blog; the letter from Bishop Michael Olson states: 1. You do not have permission to have the public celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass at the Chapel of Fisher More College. This includes Sundays and weekdays. The weekly celebration of the Extraordinary Form is…Continue Reading
By Barbara J Fraser on Tuesday, 25 February 2014 As protests in Venezuela continued the country’s Catholic leaders have urged dialogue and respect for the demonstrators’ human rights. “We have called for the social and political leaders to engage in deep, sincere dialogue” to address the country’s serious problems, including high rates of violent crime and economic difficulties that have caused a scarcity of some basic consumer goods, Caracas Auxiliary Bishop Jesus Gonzalez de Zarate, secretary-general of the Venezuelan bishops’ conference, told Catholic News Service (CNS) in a telephone interview. In a statement issued on Monday the bishops’ justice and peace commission and other human rights organisations called for “urgent action to help guarantee human rights, justice and peace in
Vatican City, Feb 28, 2014 / 04:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- In the wake of Belgium’s recent decision to legalize euthanasia for children, several members of the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life voiced their dismay at the new practice. John Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, Pa. and governing member of the academy, called the development “dreadful.” “They are appealing to ‘rights of children’ to make these determinations, but children aren’t capable of making those types of self-determinations,” Haas told CNA in Rome Feb. 21. “So what is really going to happen is that, under the rules of children making these decisions for themselves, parents and physicians are going to be making those decisions, for children, to…Continue Reading
by Thaddeus Baklinski Fri Feb 28, 2014 16:02 EST February 28, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In response to a video released by Girl Scouts USA CEO Anna Maria Chávez denying that the organization has any ties to Planned Parenthood, a group of pro-life ex-Girl Scout moms has accused Chavez of being “misleading and deceitful.” In her video Chavez had attempted to pacify the growing pro-life CookieCott protest movement that is derailing the annual cookie-selling season, saying, “we do not now, nor have we ever had a relationship with Planned Parenthood.” The moms with MyGirlScoutCouncil retort that this “blatantly false” and say that at the council level of the Girl Scout organization, “there is a long history of local councils working with Planned Parenthood. Documented examples…Continue Reading
February 28, 2014 By Fr. Dwight Longenecker Today is the anniversary with incredible memories of a frail Pope Benedict waving farewell, climbing into the helicopter and flying across the rooftops of Rome into retirement. I miss him, and here’s why. First of all, I think Pope Benedict shared my love of England and Anglicanism. He made a historic trip to England, giving an amazing speech in Parliament the very place where St Thomas More was tried. During the visit he went out of his way to beatify a saintly man so close to his own heart and character: the gentle scholar John Henry Newman. Newman is the mentor and guide to countless Anglicans on their way to Rome, and Pope…Continue Reading
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic Church needs to find a way to offer healing, strength and salvation to Catholics whose marriages have failed, who are committed to making a new union work and who long to do so within the church and with the grace of Communion, Cardinal Walter Kasper told the world’s cardinals. Jesus’ teaching on the indissolubility of sacramental marriage is clear, the retired German cardinal said, and it would harm individuals and the church to pretend otherwise. However, “after the shipwreck of sin, the shipwrecked person should not have a second boat at his or her disposal, but rather a life raft” in the form of the sacrament of Communion,…Continue Reading