RT News reports -The Catholic Church has been condemned for prioritizing its own reputation over the protection of thousands of children who were abused for decades by priests, according to a damning new report in the UK. A government-backed independent inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in the Roman Catholic Church Read more…
Amy Coney Barret is taking hit for being a Catholic and the Dems want to block her way to the Supreme Court. “It is the definition of discrimination to assert that Justice Barrett’s particular faith makes her uniquely unqualified for this promotion,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) explained. Senator Read more…
Michael Haynes reports for LifeSiteNews : A Catholic school in Dublin invited a Muslim leader to issue a blessing to the students, as well as to offer a prayer in which he referenced Christ as a mere “prophet.” A local imam joined Fr. Fergal MacDonagh at Our Lady of Dolours Church, Dolphin’s Barn, in a prayer service to Read more…
Jeanne Smits reports for LifeSiteNews : A law aiming to extend the period of legal abortion without conditions in France was adopted on Thursday by the National Assembly by 86 votes against 73 during a sparsely attended session in which only 152 deputies out of 577 bothered to vote. If Read more…
Juliana Freitag reports for ChurchMilitant.com : Earlier this year, Church Militant reported on a wave of anti-Christian vandalism sweeping across Italy, “in a binge of violence unparalleled in recent memory.” Months later, a post-lockdown upsurge in these episodes — widely underreported by the media — quickly spread across the country. A statue of Read more…
Martin Barillas reports for ChurchMilitant.com : A Brazilian priest is facing a $70,000 penalty for trying to save the life of a disabled child. Father Luiz Carlos Lodi recently lost an appeal before the Supreme Court of Brazil, which confirmed a lower court ruling that he must pay damages to a woman because he intervened in hope of Read more…
Kenneth Craycraft writes for First Things : In 1958, as John F. Kennedy was preparing to run for president of the United States, polemicist Paul Blanshard published the second edition of his incendiary 1949 book, American Freedom and Catholic Power. This was the bible of anti-Catholicism in American public life. Read more…
Martin Barillas reports for ChurchMilitant.com : Spain’s leftist government is pushing for its long-desired goal of expanding access to abortion for underage girls. Minister for equality Irene Montero Minister for equality Irene Montero appeared before Spain’s Congress on Wednesday and said that it is “more than necessary” for legislators to repeal laws requiring parental consent for 16- and 17-year-old girls to Read more…
Fr. Travis Clark and two women, Mindy Dixon and Melissa Cheng, each face criminal charges for having relations ON A CATHOLIC ALTAR. A witness passing Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in Pearl River on Sept. 30 saw the parish’s pastor committing sin with two women ON THE ALTAR. Read more…
Doug Mainwaring writes for LifeSiteNews : Bishop Robert Barron has joined a small chorus of prominent faith leaders and “conservative” voices obscuring the clear choices Catholics and other people of faith face in the rapidly approaching presidential election. And while their chorus is indeed small — mostly high-profile “Never Trump” Read more…