Future Archbishop of Miami explains immigration stance
Orlando, FL (CNA).- U.S. immigration laws are “immoral and unjust” and should be reformed to create a “path to citizenship,” Bishop of Orlando Thomas Wenski has said. Comparing illegal entry into the...
View ArticleNew Chinese bishop speaks on reconciliation within the country’s Catholic Church
Fujian, China, (CNA).- During his ordination ceremony last week, a new Chinese bishop spoke on the importance of reconciliation within the Church in China, referencing the Holy Father’s letter to the...
View ArticleJamaican archbishop calms fears, encourages St. Michael prayer
Kingston, Jamaica, May 27, 2010 / 03:20 am (CNA).- Reacting to deadly violence between security forces and armed supporters of a local drug lord in Jamaica, the Archbishop of Kingston has said most of...
View ArticleNew Shoes, New Hope to School Children in San Pedro Sula
COCONUT CREEK, FL (MetroCatholic) – In Honduras’ second-largest city, San Pedro Sula, every student at Luis Garcia Bustamante elementary school received new shoes last month as part of an initiative...
View ArticleCatholic experts weigh in on heated immigration debate, urge faithful to not...
Kansas City, MO (CNA).- A recent article in the Kansas City Leaven explores commentary from Catholic experts who have added to the heated debate on immigration reform in the U.S. In an effort to...
View ArticleThe Rain
It rained a little here and there in this great country of Texas. I was corrected today by a Native Texan that Texas isn’t a state but rather a country. I didn’t argue. One of the first things I...
View ArticleAPPEAL FOR KYRGYZSTAN, UNITED NATIONS WORLD REFUGEE DAY
VATICAN CITY, 20 JUN 2010 (VIS) – After praying the Angelus at midday today, Benedict XVI launched “a pressing appeal for peace and security to be promptly re-established in southern Kyrgyzstan,...
View ArticleTrue freedom is in acknowledging dependence on God, says Archbishop Dolan
New York City, N.Y. (CNA)- As Americans across the country celebrate the nation’s Independence Day this weekend, they should humbly remember their dependence on their Creator, said Archbishop Timothy...
View ArticleWorld Cup built African unity and self-confidence, says Cardinal Napier
Pretoria, South Africa (CNA/EWTN News).- Interviewed by Vatican Radio on the significance of World Cup, Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier of Durban, South Africa said that the event has served greatly to...
View ArticlePOPULORUM PROGRESSIO STUDIES 230 PROJECTS
VATICAN CITY (VIS) – The Administrative Council of the Populorum Progressio Foundation will meet from 20 – 23 July to deliberate on the financing of projects in support of poor indigenous, mixed race,...
View ArticleBicylist Rides in RAGBRAI to Raise Awareness About Favorite Nonprofit — Food...
COCONUT CREEK, FL (MetroCatholic) – Robert Doherty is an avid bicyclist and advocate for Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the United States. Doherty...
View ArticleCatholicSportsNet to Provide “One-Stop Shop” for Catholic Sports Fans
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (MetroCatholic) – Many media outlets cover the booming industry of sports, but only one can lay claim to the sole reporting of Catholic sports – CatholicSportsNet. Based in Louisville,...
View ArticleThomas More Society Enters ‘Not Guilty’ Plea for First Arrestee Under...
Grad Student Prayed Rosary on Sidewalk Outside Chicago Planned Parenthood CHICAGO (MetroCatholic) — Yesterday morning, Thomas More Society attorney Peter Breen entered a “not guilty” plea to the charge...
View ArticleThomas More Society Bursts Bubble — Chicago Drops Charges Against First...
CHICAGO, IL (MetroCatholic) – This afternoon, in a wake of national attention to the case, the Thomas More Society secured a dismissal of all charges against the first arrestee under the city’s...
View ArticleBishop defends marriage, says laws must stem from reason, not feelings or...
Santiago, Chile (CNA) — This week, Auxiliary Bishop Fernando Chomali of Santiago spoke up in defense of marriage and remarked that all laws must be founded in reason, according to the truth about man....
View ArticleCardinal Zen hopeful situation in China will improve for Catholics
Rome, Italy (CNA) — The Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen, said this week he hopes the situation for Catholics in China will improve despite the religious freedom difficulties that...
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What the 2012 Election Means to Me,You&Our Country
What's a prolife conservative to do?This election season has stirred up many emotions and infighting among groups of conservatives&individuals. We all have our beliefs,passions and emotions, and we...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi – the video “I do my religion on Sundays…”
As thousands gather for religious liberty rallies around the country today, we wanted to share the video footage from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s weekly press conference.
View ArticleIt’s not just the HHS mandate
There has been so much attention in the media to the egregious HHS mandate that other attacks on our religious liberty have been overshadowed. For Day 12 of the Fortnight of Freedom, we wanted to...
View ArticleDisorderly Conduct
There are multiple references to “disordered” in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC). What does the Church mean when she speaks of disordered behavior? The short answer is sin. Why doesn’t...
View ArticleTraditional Marriage Supporters Flock to Chick-fil-A
By Wayne Laugesen | COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Major thoroughfares backed up all day on Wednesday in front of this city’s five Chick-fil-A locations. The scene played out in cities throughout the...
View ArticleChristian community in Nigeria rocked by new wave of attacks
Abuja, Nigeria, Aug 7, 2012 / 05:32 pm (CNA).- Nigerian Christians are losing patience after an Aug. 6 attack on a church service in a central region of the country that killed twenty-five Christians....
View ArticlePoll Indicates Sharp Decline in Religious Fervor in Ireland
Archbishop: Faith Isn't Passed Automatically From Generation to Generation
View ArticleLord Guthrie Follows Path of Sts. George and Martin of Tours
By EDWARD PENTIN | Field Marshal the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, 73, is Britain’s highest-ranking military general who was head of the country’s armed forces from 1997 until 2001 under the government...
View ArticleNuncio: Pope’s German Critics Harm Themselves More than Benedict
By Edward Pentin | Pope Benedict XVI is pained by the closed attitude Germans sometimes show him, and views their critical stance as a particularly German phenomenon, the country’s apostolic nuncio has...
View ArticleTwo young Cuban converts ordained as priests
Havana, Cuba, Aug 17, 2012 / 12:03 pm (CNA).- The Diocese of Santa Clara, Cuba now has two new priests who both converted to Catholicism as teens, despite anti-Christian efforts launched by the...
View ArticleAdmiring Argentina
By JOY WAMBEKE | When my husband began championing a family trip to Argentina, I balked. Flying ourselves and our three small children to a very foreign country was not my idea of a vacation....
View ArticleHow the pro-life movement changed the abortion debate in South Korea
by Susan Yoshihara NEW YORK, August 31, 2012, (C-FAM)—South Korea’s highest court upheld that country’s 59-year abortion ban last week, amidst a surge of pro-life activism led by former abortionists....
View ArticleLumen Christi Missal: First Reactions
Throughout the course of the past two weeks, the Lumen Christi Missal has been arriving on the doorsteps of parishes and homes around the country. Some had pre-ordered a single copy, and some reserved...
View ArticleBig Bird and Scared Obama
When a political campaign gets spooked, the campaign often does foolish things. Attempting to make Big Bird, Big Bird!, an attack vehicle for the Obama campaign has to be the stupidest move I have...
View ArticlePrudence: The Lost Virtue
What does it mean to exercise “prudential judgment”? In recent years this phrase has been thrown around quite a bit in Catholic circles. I recently read a Facebook update arguing that prudential...
View ArticleSocialism: The Poor Get Poorer
Thomas Peterffy came to this country as a penniless refugee from Communist Hungary. He could not speak English when he got here. Currently he is worth five billion dollars. It is obvious that...
View ArticleTaxing the elderly to kill the young
So if you had a country with 0.497 population growth what would you do? Well if you were France you would you would have the government totally cover the cost of abortion (though not the moral cost)....
View ArticleThe Church and Voting
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2239 It is the duty of citizens to contribute along with the civil authorities to the good of society in a spirit of truth, justice, solidarity, and freedom....
View ArticleWhat Is To Be Done?
The narrative game has begun. One of the major memes we can expect to hear now that the GOP lost the presidential race is that “extremism” is to blame. Many of us know that it was absurd to label Mitt...
View ArticleRobert the Bruce and Obama Catholics
Braveheart is obviously a classic. In the film, Robert the Bruce, the dashing young man from the video above, betrays William Wallace for money, lands, and titles. He regrets it after looking into...
View ArticleAbby Johnson’s lawsuit exposes Planned Parenthood’s false profits
by Family Research Center WASHINGTON, D.C., November 15, 2012, (Family Research Council) - Apparently, Planned Parenthood is no longer content exploiting just women and children—so they’ve moved on to...
View ArticleLeading pro-abortion campaigner appointed new head of Girlguiding UK
by Thaddeus Baklinski LONDON, November 16, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) - The former chief executive of the UK’s Family Planning Association, the UK branch of Planned Parenthood, has been appointed as the...
View ArticleHHS Mandate Fight Not Going Away
One of the many dreadful results of the American people deciding to give the Southside Messiah another four years to see how much of the country he can gut, is that the struggle over the HHS mandate...
View ArticleThe Father of Our Country and the Amighty
Today is the feast day of Christ the King in the Catholic Liturgical Calendar, signaling the ending of the Church year. On this date my thoughts turn to April 30, 1789 when President George Washington...
View ArticleSecond Sunday of Advent, Lumen Christi Missal
Many parishes around the country introduced the Lumen Christi Missal for the first time this past weekend, the First Sunday of Advent. We have now passed the one-year mark for the implementation of the...
View ArticlePictures of Defeat and Victory
Obama is the one who won, right? Considering what the next four years are going to be like, I suspect that most of the country will eventually bitterly regret that Romney lost. Romney on the other...
View ArticlePope makes second appeal for Congo as situation worsens
Vatican City, Dec 5, 2012 / 01:38 pm (CNA).- The Pope has repeated his plea for international humanitarian aid in the Democratic Republic of Congo just two months after his last appeal for the country....
View ArticleLet’s Ignore That Pesky Constitution
Louis Michael Seidman, a professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown (surprise!), doesn’t think much of the Constitution as he explains in an op-ed in the New York Times: Consider, for example,...
View ArticleZambian Bishops Denounce ‘Deterioration of Human Rights’
Call for End of Arbitrary Use of Power By Government Officials
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What to Expect: The Coming Demographic Challenge
"A country without children is a nation without a future." According to a recent post on the Demography Matters blog, this was a comment by Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva, referring to his...
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