Jonathon van Maren reports for LifeSiteNews : Back in May, I wrote a column for First Things on the ongoing persecution of Finnish politician Päivi Räsänen, who has been consistently targeted over the past several years by LGBT activists for her outspoken advocacy of biblical sexual ethics. Since I interviewed Read more
Joseph Sciambra writes for Sons of St Joseph — From October 9–10, 2020, at their Jesuit Retreat Center located in Parma, Ohio, (Diocese of Cleveland) the Society of Jesus will host an LGBTQ retreat called “Emmaus 2020: A Time for Healing: Ourselves and the World.” According to the Center’s website: “EMMAUS 2020 Read more
Fr John Hunwicke blogs : It is reported that the Queensland parliament has joined other Australian legislatures in providing for the imprisonment of Catholic Priests for performing priestly functions. I do not want to get into the question of whether or not it would in fact help to stamp out Read more
Catholic News Agency reports : Cardinal Raymond Burke, a canon lawyer and formerly the prefect of the Church’s highest court, has said that Catholic politicians supporting abortion should not receive Holy Communion, including pro-choice Catholic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Biden “is not a Catholic in good standing and he should Read more
Bethany Janzen reports for LifeSiteNews : Switzerland’s March for Life was unable to take place as scheduled on Saturday, September 19 because of the threat of violent pro-abortion counter-protestors. Following the Zurich police’s ban of the 2020 March for Life on the streets, the organizers booked a private conference location Read more
Martin Bürger reports for LifeSiteNews : The local government of Munich, Germany, refrained from lighting up city hall in purple in support of “International Safe Abortion Day” after backlash from pro-lifers and Catholics, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, and higher levels of government. Between 300 and 400 pro-lifers had Read more
Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com : Italy’s cultural heritage, rooted in Catholicism, faces a potential threat from the nation’s Parliament signing the Faro Convention, politicians and cultural critics are warning. Parliamentarians hold up posters of the Riace Bronzes Italy on Thursday signed the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Read more
Martina Moyski reports for ChurchMilitant.com : The Catholic Church is once again bearing an assault on her most revered objects — and with scant media coverage. San Antonio crucifix vandalized Assumption Seminary in San Antonio was attacked last week. A vandal smashed the feet of Jesus on the main crucifix and draped Read more
Steven Mosher writes for LifeSiteNews : Americans assume that Ruth Bader Ginsberg was a hammer-and-tongs feminist who was a die-hard supporter of Roe v. Wade. The truth is somewhat more … complicated. Roe v. Wade predated Ginsberg’s service on the court, of course, and she originally—and correctly–considered it an example Read more
Dorothy Cummings McLean reports for LifeSiteNews : A Chinese ethics textbook developed with some oversight from the communist Chinese government depicts Jesus killing the woman caught in adultery. The Union of Catholic Asian News (UCA News) reported last week that a textbook produced for vocational students by the Chinese University Read more