Washington D.C.-CNA—Two churches in Maryland have held days Eucharistic Adoration with prayers for healing from the recent scandals that have plagued the Church. St. Andrew Apostle Church in Silver Spring, along with Sacred Heart Church in La Plata, hosted a 24-hour “Day of Prayer: Repair My House” October 4-5. About six weeks before the event,…
Here below is the full text of the letter (Vatican working translation), released October 7, 2018, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. “OPEN LETTER FROM THE PREFECT OF THE CONGREGATION FOR BISHOPS, CARDINAL MARC OUELLET, ON THE RECENT ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE HOLY SEE Dear brother Carlo Maria Viganò, In your last message…
In this article, Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins exposes an aggressive move by the California state legislature that took shape early this year to attempt to force public universities and colleges in the state to administer the powerful and dangerous abortion pill RU486 on campus. Touted by favorable legislators as a model for other…
Reacting to the news that Governor Jerry Brown vetoed SB 320, Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America stated, “Today’s veto is a victory for all women, students, and taxpayers in California. Students for Life of America is proud to have worked alongside other pro-life groups in California to protect students from the…
PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Catholic Medical Association (CMA) along with the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), applauds the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) first step in cancelling a contract for medical research using aborted babies, however nearly $100 million for similar experiments remain. The CMA joined AAPLOG and dozens of other medical…
Washington D.C. (CNA)—The United States Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to a pro-life amendment to the Tennessee state constitution. Amendment 1 categorically excludes abortion rights from the state’s constitution. The Supreme Court declined to admit an appeal on the matter in a decision released on Oct.1, the first day of the court’s new…
(CNA/EWTN News) – Princess Alexandra of Hanover, daughter of Princess Caroline and Prince Ernst August of Hanover, is a member of the royal family of Monaco. By birth she was also way down in England’s line of succession to the throne. But the 19-year-old Princess has reportedly been removed from her distant place in the…
Purposefully dated September 29, 2018—the Feast Day of Archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael—Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò (former Apostolic Nuncio to the United States) released a new letter reinforcing his exposure of insider complicity at the highest ecclesiastical level regarding a cover-up of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s alleged sex abuse crimes against adult males including seminarians. Entitled…
Mrs. Wu is fifty years old. Her husband ended his life by jumping into the dam seven years ago, because he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer, and they could not afford treatments at the hospital. Mrs. Wu’s heart broke. She wanted to join her husband in death because she could not live without him. Traditionally, the…
I refuse to be apologetic for radical Islam in the West. I refuse to gloss over the darkest consequences to which rampant extremism has led. I do not waffle beneath the idea of multiculturalism or tolerance; some things are not meant to be tolerated. The message of the apologists is clear: Get in line. Send…
ACI Prensa—Benin City, Nigeria—In a strong critique of Nigeria’s governing administration, the country’s Catholic bishops have said that Nigeria must find a new approach to self-governance as it prepares for its 2019 general election. The bishops added that prayer for Nigeria is essential to the country’s future. “As we look forward to the elections of…
CNA/EWTN—Artificial human reproduction appears to be on the horizon with Japanese scientists’ claim to have created immature human eggs from stem cells, but the technique could result in power that would cross the bounds of ethics and serve as a “profound violation” of marriage and marital love, a bioethicist has warned. John Brehany, a Catholic…
Crisis—Anyone who wonders why the Catholic Church is in its present crisis need only read Dr. Scott Bruce’s “Do We Still Need to Believe in Hell?” The Wall Street Journal article (9/15-16/18) recently appeared in its popular weekend review section. It was a rather typical yet brutal appraisal of the notion of Hell. The author…
Matthew Garrett delivers another key component of financial success for struggling entrepreneurs, again published in Forbes. We felt it delivers important simplicity and content to those great Catholic business warriors who nonetheless lack a sufficient, strong anchor in financial understanding. Read on! -ed. Every business starts out with optimistic spreadsheet projections of profit and success.…
Topics to include: End of Life/Palliative Care, Cannabis/Opioid Abuse, Abortion Pill Reversal, Combating Physician Burnout PHILADELPHIA, PA September 19, 2018 – The Catholic Medical Association’s Annual Educational Conference will provide strategies for today’s Catholic medical professionals on how to best balance modern issues of technocracy versus providing compassionate Christ-like care to patients. The conference, “Restoring Healthcare in A Technocratic Age,” will…
NCRegister—The victims of this abuse, and all those scandalized by it, deserve the bishops’ very best efforts — Like many in the Church from both the clergy and laity, I am increasingly shocked by the depths of the crisis before us. Every day seems to bring forth new allegations of sexual immorality or the cover-up…
For those struggling entrepreneurs whose abundant talents and passion don’t include much, if any, financial background, here is a Forbes article that delivers a clear, simple strategy for financial success. As simple as it gets! -ed. Everyone knows how to be healthy: Eat Right, Exercise, and maintain positive mental health (sleep, stress, etc.). Very few…
CNA—The Baltimore Orioles teamed up with Catholic Relief Services last weekend to help feed the hungry in Burkina Faso. Members of the Baltimore baseball team were among hundreds of volunteers at Catholic Relief Services’ Helping Hands program on Sunday. Participants gathered in a warehouse at Oriole Park and Camden Yards to assemble food packages for…
In late January 2018, Open Doors released its 2018 World Watch List (WWL), an annual ranking of the 50 countries where it is most dangerous to follow Jesus. Approximately 215 million Christians now experience high, very high, or extreme levels of persecution; that means 1 in 12 Christians live where Christianity is “illegal, forbidden, or…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Senior Counsel for the leading pro-life advocacy group Americans United for Life (AUL), Clarke Forsythe, has issued the following statement: “The Eleventh Circuit’s decision yesterday striking down the Alabama prohibition on dismemberment abortion was disappointing but not unexpected, given the Supreme Court’s 2016 abortion decision that gave little room for the States to protect maternal health or the unborn child from…
