We are helping finance the infrastructure used in coercive family planning in China. The international community funds UNFPA (United Nations Family Planning Fund), as well as IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation), and Marie Stopes International. These organizations are operative “abortion providers” in China. In 2001, the US cut funding to UNFPA because an investigation, headed [...]
Tom Roeser Funeral Details
Visitation will be Friday, 4 to 9 p.m. at Nelson Funeral Home, 820 Talcott Road, Park Ridge. A funeral will be at 11 a.m. on Saturday at St. John Cantius Church, 825 N. Carpenter St. in Chicago followed by burial at Interment All Saints Cemetery, 700 N. River Road in Des Plaines. Link
Abortion is almost always elective surgery, so why would anyone expect it to be covered under medical plans?
As for regulations with states who are suspending private insurers from abortion, again, I have to point out that private insurance limits many types of elective surgery. A prime example is surgery some undergo for obesity. Although obesity is a health risk, many policies will not cover this type of surgery or, if they do, [...]
Big abortion shake up in UK as Helpers of God’s Precious Infants and 40 Days for Life begin European operations.
In Maidstone, police arrived to tell the group to remain on the other side of the street from the clinic. While two of the protesters engaged in an animated conversation with the officers, denying they were obstructing or harassing clients, a car with two women who had left the clinic accelerated at high speed and [...]
Cause of Schism: “those who assert that Vatican II founded a new Church with a new theology and new sacraments.”
Rorate Caeli has posted an English translation of a Die Welt interview by Paul Badde with Martin Mosebach, author of the seminal lay apology for the traditional Mass, The Heresy of Formlessness. Mosebach, with his usual insight and ability to get to the crux of an issue quickly, discusses the new instruction on the Extraordinary [...]
Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape
Archaeological digs under the disputed Old City are a matter of immense sensitivity. For Israel, the tunnels are proof of the depth of Jewish roots here, and this has made the tunnels one of Jerusalem’s main tourist draws: The number of visitors, mostly Jews and Christians, has risen dramatically in recent years to more than [...]
Sanchez: There is nothing wrong with God, with the presence of faith. It is humans, including some of the highest authority figures, who are failing the Catholic Church.
Re: Recent events in Kansas City The diocese can make any number of new policies and procedures. It probably will, with the best of intentions. But unless the attitudes of the people expected to abide by such policies are altered, nothing will truly change. Read more
Tom Roeser, Catholic, dead at 82
by Doug Lawrence I never met Tom Roeser, but through his extensive writings and his long, Chicago broadcast radio career, I felt like I did. Tom was a Catholic, a Republican, a conservative, a media personality, a family man, a scholar, and many other things. I read all his daily blog posts and also listened [...]
The meaning of Memorial Day
Officially, Memorial Day, observed on the last Monday of May (this year it’s May 30), honors the war dead. Unofficially, the day honors the start of summer. (More on that in a moment.) The upcoming three-day weekend has prompted searches on Yahoo! for “when is memorial day,” “what is memorial day,” and “memorial day history.” [...]
Malta: No more “Until death do us part.”
Largely Catholic nation was last EU member to not allow divorce but country votes for change in law through referendum. Link Editor’s note: See the Guardian’s reader comments for a sampling of rampant UK anti-Catholicism.
A Prayer Before A Test
Editor’s note: One of my sons recently completed a comprehensive (and exhaustive) series of tests in order to become a professional SCUBA instructor. I have no doubt that he was successful … at least in part … due to prayer. Here’s one of the prayers I found at The Catholic Community at Ithaca College Prayer [...]
Making sense of apparent discrepancies in the Bible
Genesis 1:3, the first day: “And God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.” But then in Genesis 1:13-18, not until the third day, did GOD make the sun and the moon to give this light. So the covert message is, “What (or Who) gave the light on the first day?” Conjecture? Maybe, but [...]
Some very important things that Jesus Christ never said or taught
From: The Church or the Bible by Fr. Arnold Damen, S.J. (1815-1890) Christ did not say, “Sit down and write Bibles and scatter them over the earth, and let every man read his Bible and judge for himself.” If Christ had said that, there would never have been a Christianity on the earth at all, [...]
Just In Time for Pentecost: Interesting chart explains the mystery of the Holy Trinity.
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The True Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist – Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.
The Council of Trent… Convened on December 4, 1545 and closed on December 4, 1563. About 25 years after the Protestant reformation, the Catholic Church convened the Council of Trent as a counter to the reformation, and for the refutation of the heresies created by it. Here are the decrees of this council regarding the [...]
Cardinal George on God in Action
Chicago’s archbishop reflects on religion’s place in an increasingly secular society. Link
Catholic clergy clash over home schooling
Although I wasn’t home-schooled, I fully support parents who are in a position to do so. Thus, I’m perplexed and disappointed in remarks made by Catholic author Father Peter M.J. Stravinskas in a recently-posted article on the website of Our Sunday Visitor. Read more
Chilling, true story: The Night I Forgave My Daughter’s Killer.
We hoped this would be a once-in-a-lifetime family vacation — camping for a whole month in Montana. One night, at our first stop, our 7-year-old daughter Susie was kidnapped out of our tent. The tent was cut next to where her head had lain; she was pulled out and carried away. Read more
“Your (Bible) hermeneutic has destroyed the faith of many and decimated the Church.”
Traditional Catholic apologist Robert Sungenis contends with a modernist priest on the best way to understand the true meaning of sacred scripture. Link (PDF)
