Why did it take FOX News to blow ACORN’s evil deception? Instead the CCHD and the USCCB deliberately ignored the many Catholics that told them about this scandal for many years prior to this. Now that the USCCB/CCHD has been inconvenienced with bad public relations they finally cut them off. Well CCHD still funds many [...]
40th Anniversary of the Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Egypt
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Abortion, Capital Punishment and War: One of these things is not like the other
The basic difference between abortion and capital punishment (or the waging of armed force) is that the Church has firmly and explicitly taught that the former is an intrinsic evil: the direct taking of innocent human life to be opposed everywhere and at all times, while the moral worth of the latter two measures are [...]
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until it’s free!
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Planned Parenthood: Bad Business in Big Trouble
Medical abortions — which involve delivering the dead baby at home — are promoted as cost-effective alternative to surgical abortions, which is especially appealing to financially fragile affiliates. Take, for example, the Springfield, Illinois, location. In 2008, all of Planned Parenthood’s affiliates in Illinois consolidated into a single affiliate and pooled their resources. This enabled [...]
Top Ten Things to Know about Advent
The local radio stations are already playing Christmas music and everyone is already talking about the “Christmas” season–but it’s not yet Christmas – this Sunday begins Advent, the season for preparing for Christmas. So what is Advent and why is it important? Advent is a time to prepare our hearts for the coming of Christ. [...]
New Advent and Christmas website from the USCCB
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The Natural law= bigotry? Please.
Baloney. What’s being retrofitted here is old-time anti-Catholic bigotry, tarted up in the guise of tolerance and extended to those who think there are moral truths built into the world and into us—truths that we can grasp by reason. Ken Cuccinelli is a serious, practicing Catholic. He’s also a sophisticated politician who knows that you [...]
Five Advent Reflections
The Following are “Five Advent Reflections” I have prepared. If these interest you I have prepared them also in PDF format which you can get by clicking here: The Season of Advent Read the article By: Msgr. Charles Pope More …
Tom Roeser and the spirit of Fr. Ernie respond to certain Catholic commentators, politicians
Catholics bound by the moral law can agreeably participate in the secular political system where civil law may contradict the moral. But in no sense should the civil law intrude upon the conscience of the Catholic and require his compliance… nor frankly can the Catholic inflict the Church’s morals on the state beyond what is [...]
Pray the Rosary with Father John Corapi
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How times have changed!
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor– and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee [...]
Tom Roeser on “the Squid” – Obama, Daley, and “The Chicago Way”
“The Chicago Way”-a method of bamboozling and backstabbing-is leading to disillusionment by significant portions of the Left with Barack Obama, the man it hailed as supposedly the most inspiring Democrat since Bobby Kennedy … “A critical mass of influential people who once held big hopes for [Obama's] presidency [have begun] to wonder whether they had [...]
Reception for Father Dan Cambra on December 6th – Darien, Illinois
Reception for Father Dan After two decades of faithful service in the Midwest, including 7 years at Our Lady of Peace in Darien, Illinois Father Dan Cambra is moving to the Divine Mercy Shrine in Massachusetts, where he will continue to serve as Provincial of the Marians of the Immaculate Conception. Join us for a celebration [...]
First Thanksgiving Was Actually Catholic
It Was a Traditional Latin Mass of Thanksgiving in St. Augustine, in 1565. Fifty five years before the Pilgrims Landed at Plymouth Rock. History books have long portrayed images of the US’s first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with Pilgrims, dressed in black and white, sharing turkey with American Indians. (It should be noted that the [...]
Book Selection: Divorce, annulments, and the Catholic Church
By Matt C. Abbott The following are excerpts from the book Annulments and the Catholic Church: Straight Answers to Tough Questions, authored by canon and civil lawyer Edward Peters. The book is written mostly in question-and-answer format, with 100 questions on the topic of Church annulments being answered by Dr. Peters. Thanks to Matthew Pinto [...]
A baptized Catholic Native American orchestrated what became known as Thanksgiving
Squanto, the beloved hero of Thanksgiving, was the Native American man who mediated between the Puritan Pilgrims and the Native Americans. Squanto had been enslaved by the English but he was freed by Spanish Franciscans. Squanto thus received baptism and became a Catholic. So it was a baptized Catholic Native American who orchestrated what became [...]
“New Age” Will Soon Be Old Hat, and the Church Will Still Be Standing
It was in the late 1960s that the teachings begotten by Gurdjieff, Suzuki, Krishnamurti, et al., flowered in the hothouse of countercultural rebellion against certainties political as well as spiritual. These teachings went mainstream; when “my generation” wasn’t sucking on hookahs and listening to “White Rabbit,” or striking against the war in Vietnam, we were [...]
Coma patient: “I want to read, talk with my friends via the computer and enjoy my life now that people know I am not dead,”
Brussels, Belgium, Nov 24, 2009 / 03:55 am (CNA).- A paralyzed man who was misdiagnosed as comatose for 23 years is again communicating with the world after new brain scans showed he was in fact conscious. A Catholic bioethics expert suggests the case shows the wisdom of Catholic teaching on the duty to provide sustenance [...]
Bishop explains Kennedy sanctions. Surprised at Kennedy’s response.
“I am disappointed and really surprised that Congressman Patrick Kennedy has chosen to reopen the public discussion about his practice of the faith and his reception of Holy Communion. This comes almost two weeks after the Congressman indicated to local media that he would no longer comment publicly on his faith or his relationship with [...]
