NIGHTMARE IN CHINA: Mainland China destroys another Church, Brave Chinese Catholics Willing to Die for Christ as Government destroys beloved Marian Shrine

NIGHTMARE IN CHINA: Mainland China destroys another Church, Brave Chinese Catholics Willing to Die for Christ as Government destroys beloved Marian Shrine

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LifeSiteNews—April 10, 2019—Two hundred Chinese Catholics put their lives on the line attempting to stop the Communist government of mainland China from destroying their beloved shrine. According to Fr. Bernardo Cervellera, missionary priest and the editor of Asia News, the 200 members of the underground Catholic church have been holding a sit-in on the steps…

The Remarkable Turnaround: Catholic school goes from $500K in debt, bleeding cash, to full capacity and waiting list

The Remarkable Turnaround: Catholic school goes from $500K in debt, bleeding cash, to full capacity and waiting list

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After nearly 20 years serving as a teacher and then vice principal at the mid-to-lower income, blue-collar school she had attended as a child, Mary Pat Donoghue entered St. Jerome’s door as its new principal in July 2009. The remarkable transformation that took place at St. Jerome’s in Hyattsville, a once-unremarkable school tucked away on…

Catholic Business Journal introduces new column: This Week in History

Catholic Business Journal introduces new column: This Week in History

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In what might seem like an odd twist, Catholic Business Journal, the nation’s pre-eminent news source focusing on faith and work, faith and business, today introduces a new column on…. history! “In business schools,” notes Karen Walker, founder and publisher of Catholic Business Journal, “and in our individual quests to become more adept in our…

This Week in History: Parliament Emancipates Catholics on April 13, 1829

This Week in History: Parliament Emancipates Catholics on April 13, 1829

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Conditions did not improve when George IV became king in 1820. As regent for his insane father, George III, since 1811, George IV had long supported the repression of radicals. Though a clever man (he was a student of the classics and fluent in French, Italian, and German), George IV was not a particularly good…

In Academia as in Government, Personnel Is Policy

In Academia as in Government, Personnel Is Policy

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News is that Providence College, where I taught for 27 years, will be getting a new president in 2020. He won’t have troubles with money or buildings. For re-establishing the Catholic faith as the school’s foundation, and aim, and reason for existence, he will face, outside of the theology department, a nearly universal hostility from a faculty…

Catholic Ethos Caught Up in Culture War Dividing Europe

Catholic Ethos Caught Up in Culture War Dividing Europe

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WSJ—When Pope John Paul II visited Ireland and his native Poland in 1979, these two redoubts of Catholic faith seemed to be on a similar path. Millions gathered to listen to the pontiff in Dublin and in Warsaw. In Poland, the wave of religious fervor after the trip catalyzed resistance, spurring the Solidarity movement the…

Catholic school sues South Euclid, Ohio, to defend its right to hire Catholic teachers

Catholic school sues South Euclid, Ohio, to defend its right to hire Catholic teachers

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South Euclid, Ohio, recently passed a new city ordinance that adds religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression as protected classes under the law. The Lyceum, a Catholic school in South Euclid, has spoken out against this measure from the beginning. Now that the city voted to pass this proposed ordinance, Alliance Defending Freedom…

California forced religious groups to pay for abortion coverage at Planned Parenthood’s bidding

California forced religious groups to pay for abortion coverage at Planned Parenthood’s bidding

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Three churches filed a notice of appeal Thursday in their lawsuit challenging the California Department of Managed Health Care’s (DMHC) mandate that forces churches to pay for elective abortions in their health insurance plans. As revealed in e-mails that Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys who represent the churches discovered, the agency issued its mandate in response…

“Unplanned” Movie does well opening weekend

“Unplanned” Movie does well opening weekend

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CBN—Unplanned, the new movie that tells the true story of former abortion clinic director Abby Johnson, took 4th place at the box office on the movie’s opening weekend. The film by writer-directors Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon, which is distributed by PureFlix, was estimated to have earned $6,110,000 through Mar. 31 after three days of…

Interview with Michael Walsh on The Fiery Angel and the link between cultural and political crisis in the West

Interview with Michael Walsh on The Fiery Angel and the link between cultural and political crisis in the West

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Michael Saltis with the Catholic Business Journal, caught up with author Michael Walsh by phone regarding Walsh’s compelling book, The Fiery Angel: Art, Culture, Sex, Politics and the Struggle for the Soul of the West. As a journalist, author and screenwriter whose works include six novels, seven works of nonfiction, and the hit Disney movie…

Will Pope Francis meet the Chinese president this week?

Will Pope Francis meet the Chinese president this week?

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CNA—As communist Chinese President Xi Jinping travels to Rome this week, there has been much speculation as to whether his trip will also include an unofficial visit with Pope Francis. Ahead of China’s president’s arrival in Italy on March 21, the Associated Press (AP) reported that Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said, “Our…

Directors speak of ‘spiritual warfare’ while making pro-life film

Directors speak of ‘spiritual warfare’ while making pro-life film

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Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, the writers and co-directors of the upcoming film Unplanned revealed that they prepared for a “spiritual battle” in the hopes that the pro-life film will change hearts and minds through its groundbreaking depiction of the abortion process. “From the beginning, we knew that it would be spiritual battle, spiritual warfare.…

Cardinal DiNardo hospitalized after ‘mild stroke’

Cardinal DiNardo hospitalized after ‘mild stroke’

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The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference was hospitalized March 15 after suffering a mild stroke, according to a statement from the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, which has been led by Cardinal Daniel DiNardo since 2006. “It is expected that Cardinal DiNardo will remain hospitalized for a few more days of testing and observation, followed by…

Millennial-to-Millennial Evangelization

Millennial-to-Millennial Evangelization

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Steve Lewis isn’t a big name. Not even on your radar. He is a missionary.  But you won’t find him on the streets of an inner city or Third World country.  He’s not even a monk!  Yet he’s doing great missionary work in most unlikely of places: YouTube.  A 30-year-old, fully engaged, fully faithful young…

Center of Christianity has a newcomer: Mormons

Center of Christianity has a newcomer: Mormons

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If you think every corner of today’s world doesn’t need serious evangelization, think again.  Even in Rome.  Yes.  Rome, the renown center of the Catholic Church and Christianity, and home to some of the most breath-taking Christian art and historical evidence for early Christianity, has a newcomer and its doors just opened for public tours…

Utah school apologizes after student forced to remove Lenten ashes

Utah school apologizes after student forced to remove Lenten ashes

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CNA—A school district in Utah has issued an apology after a fourth-grade student was told by a teacher that he must remove the cross from his forehead on Ash Wednesday. William McLeod, a student at Valley View Elementary School in Bountiful, Utah, arrived at school with ashes on his forehead in the shape of a…

BOOK REVIEW: Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox

BOOK REVIEW: Thomas Aquinas: The Dumb Ox

admin March 8, 2019 0 Comments

G.K. Chesterton’s brilliant sketch of the life and thought of Thomas Aquinas is as relevant today as when it was published in 1933. Then it earned the praise of such distinguished writers as Etienne Gilson, Jacques Martain, and Anton Pegis as the best book ever written on the great thirteenth-century Dominican. Today Chesterton’s classic stands…

Pope names new auxiliary bishop for Archdiocese of Los Angeles

Pope names new auxiliary bishop for Archdiocese of Los Angeles

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Pope Francis today named Msgr. Alejandro “Alex” Aclan Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The Holy Father has also named Auxiliary Bishop Joseph V. Brennan, for the San Fernando Region of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, as Bishop of Fresno. The appointments were announced in Washington, D.C. at 3 a.m. PST by Archbishop…

Award-winning Medical Doctor Leaves Hospital over Trans-gender Surgeries, Opens DPC Practice

Award-winning Medical Doctor Leaves Hospital over Trans-gender Surgeries, Opens DPC Practice

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Biblical teaching and medical ethics led Dr. Rod Story to leave a hospital that was asking him to violate both. Since resigning from Pullman Regional Hospital in Washington state at the end of 2017 rather than participate in “transgender” surgeries, Dr. Story has not only started his own successful direct primary care practice, but he…

How is a Christian Doctor Different?

How is a Christian Doctor Different?

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Will you get different care by going to a doctor who is a professed Christian? How should a believer practice medicine? I’ve worked in the medical community for 15 years. My colleagues are good doctors, by and large. Medicine has a lot of standard procedures—how you treat blood pressure, diabetes or chronic illnesses—and, for the…

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