Jean Vanier, Champion and Friend to Intellectually Disabled, Founder of L’Arche, dies at 90

Jean Vanier, Champion and Friend to Intellectually Disabled, Founder of L’Arche, dies at 90

CNA—Beloved founder of L’Arche, Jean Vanier died May 7, at the age of 90. He died at a L’Arche home in Paris, where he had entered palliative care several weeks ago, after a protracted battle with cancer. Vanier will be mourned by his friends: the weak, the indigent, the forgotten, the disturbed, the rejected, and…

More Wondrous than the latest Royal Birth: What Prince George can do that no English monarch has done for 350 YEARS

More Wondrous than the latest Royal Birth: What Prince George can do that no English monarch has done for 350 YEARS

Congratulations to Prince Harry and Meghan on the birth of their first child, now named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, as congratulations are in order for any couple welcoming a child into the world!  What we found especially delightful amid our current deadly age of abortion “rights” and legalized infanticide is the utter joy of Prince Harry…

Venezuelan National Guard attacks Catholic Church, Bishop Speaks Out

Venezuelan National Guard attacks Catholic Church, Bishop Speaks Out

San Cristobal, Venezuela, May 2, 2019—CNA—Members of the Venezuelan National Guard attacked a Catholic church in San Cristobal Wednesday, amid nationwide protests against the socialist government of president Nicolas Maduro. Bishop Mario del Valle Moronta Rodriguez of San Cristóbal de Venezuela said May 1 that “this afternoon a horde of Bolivarian National Guardsmen attacked Our…

The Affordable Care Act’s unhappy anniversary

The Affordable Care Act’s unhappy anniversary

March 23 marked nine years since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) became law. Obamacare’s proponents promised that the law would reduce costs, expand access, and allow us to keep our doctors if we liked our doctors. The reality has been quite different. Since Obamacare was enacted, individual health insurance…

Two Florida teens lost in the ocean prayed for help; Saved by a boat named Amen

Two Florida teens lost in the ocean prayed for help; Saved by a boat named Amen

God is the great communicator.  He knows us each individually better than we know ourselves.  He speaks to us in ways that best suit our individual personalities, and has done so from the beginning of time, literally.  For the apostle Thomas, also known through the centuries as “doubting Thomas,” Our Risen Lord told him to…

Sri Lanka Bombings: Why Big Media used term ‘Easter Worshipper’ and Why it matters

Sri Lanka Bombings: Why Big Media used term ‘Easter Worshipper’ and Why it matters

Daily Wire—I have been a Christian all my life and if I’ve ever heard the term “Easter worshipper,” or something like it, it would have been in reference to Christians who only go to church on Christmas and Easter. Generally we call those types “Christmas and Easter Christians” or “CEOs” (Christmas and Easter Only). But…

A Catholic School Stands Its Ground

A Catholic School Stands Its Ground

Crisis—There have been plenty of examples of our secular culture’s antagonism toward Catholic education: from the Covington School-Nick Sandmann debacle, to activism against the admissions policies of Kansas City’s Catholic schools, and to numerous lawsuits by employees fired from Catholic schools for moral indiscretions. The greatest danger in these situations is not the secularist’s desire…

Keepers of the Faith and Culture

Keepers of the Faith and Culture

We sure live in perplexing times.  I think we will make it through, barely…. sometimes crawling and clinging, God willing, we will get to the finish line, dusty but intact. I worry deeply about my grandson’s generation and those following, who will have only grown up in a society where relationship to and confidence in…

Man arrested entering St. Patrick’s cathedral with gasoline

Man arrested entering St. Patrick’s cathedral with gasoline

CNA—The man who attempted to enter New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral carrying gasoline, lighter fluid, and a lighter will face criminal charges. The attempted entry was the second time this week the man was arrested at a Catholic cathedral. Marc Lamparello, 37, was apprehended April 17, 2019, by St. Patrick’s Cathedral security around 8 p.m.…

Jesuit Father James Schall has died at age 91

Jesuit Father James Schall has died at age 91

CNA—Father James Schall, S.J., a longtime professor of philosophy at Georgetown University and the author of numerous books and essays, died Holy Wednesday aged 91. Schall was born Jan. 28, 1928 in Pocahontas, Iowa, and after high school spent time at the University of Santa Clara and in the U.S. Army. He entered the California…

Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka Easter bombings

Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka Easter bombings

The Islamic State claimed responsibility Tuesday for the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka that killed at least 321 people and left 500 injured. “The perpetrators of the attack that targeted nationals of the countries of the coalitions and Christians in Sri Lanka before yesterday are fighters from the Islamic State,” the Islamic State said through…

Court rules against Catholic foster agency in Philadelphia

Court rules against Catholic foster agency in Philadelphia

CNA—After a yearlong legal struggle, a federal appeals court has ruled that city contractors in Philadelphia must place foster children with same-sex couples, a ruling that threatens the future of the local Catholic archdiocese’s foster placement program. “We’re disappointed that the court decided to let the city place politics above the needs of kids and…

The Eucharist through the Eyes of a Jewish Catholic

The Eucharist through the Eyes of a Jewish Catholic

I’ll always remember the taste of haroseth and horseradish on a matzah cracker. At first it’s sweet and nutty with a hint of red wine and then the horseradish pummels your sinuses and your eyes start to water. My siblings and I competed to see who could stand the most burning. It was our ritual,…

Notre Dame receives $1 billion in donations to rebuild, less than 48 hours after disaster

Notre Dame receives $1 billion in donations to rebuild, less than 48 hours after disaster

Mass had begun when the fire broke out in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.  Fire fighters and parish staff evacuated mass attendees immediately, even as more fire fighters were rushing to the scene.  In all, 400 fire fighters battled the inferno.  Many moveable artifacts were saved but the iconic spire, the roof and…

Ohio Passes Heartbeat Bill: New Law Bans Abortion from the Moment a Heartbeat can be Detected

Ohio Passes Heartbeat Bill: New Law Bans Abortion from the Moment a Heartbeat can be Detected

Last Thursday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed the Human Rights and Heartbeat Protection Act (S.B. 23) into law. The new law prohibits doctors from performing an abortion if a heartbeat can be detected, except in cases to save the life of the mother or to prevent the “substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily…

This Week in History: April 18, 1506—Pope Julius II

This Week in History: April 18, 1506—Pope Julius II

In April 18, 1506, Pope Julius II laid the cornerstone for a new basilica church over the burial place of St. Peter the Apostle in the Vatican. A great lover of the arts and a patron of artists, Pope Julius hoped to accomplish what Pope Nicholas V had begun fifty years before; namely, to replace…

Former Abortionist Stops Abortions After Daughter Dies

Former Abortionist Stops Abortions After Daughter Dies

LiveAction—Dr. Anthony Levatino, the former abortionist featured in Live Action’s Abortion Procedures videos, played the role of an abortionist in the “Unplanned” film. Dr. Levatino says he committed more than 1200 abortions, but stopped committing them after his adopted daughter passed away. One day, he had a sort of awakening about what he was really…

Nearly 100 abortion workers seek help to leave jobs after seeing ‘Unplanned’

Nearly 100 abortion workers seek help to leave jobs after seeing ‘Unplanned’

As reported by LiveAction, filmmakers for “Unplanned,” the new movie about the pro-life conversion of former Planned Parenthood facility director Abby Johnson, have announced that since the release of the movie, approximately 100 abortion workers have reached out, seeking to leave the abortion industry. At the end of the film, there is contact information for…

Benedict’s Essay: The Voice of a True Father

Benedict’s Essay: The Voice of a True Father

Crisis—Why the uproar from some Catholic pundits regarding the recently released essay on the abuse crisis from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI? I think it’s pretty simple—regardless of what else one thinks of Benedict (and most of the critics were never fans of his), he speaks and writes with a voice that is truly paternal. The…

U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Conviction of Veteran Fined and Jailed for Digging Ponds on his Rural Montana Property

U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Conviction of Veteran Fined and Jailed for Digging Ponds on his Rural Montana Property

Judicial Watch announced today that the Supreme Court of the United States has overturned a lower court decision affirming the conviction of Joseph Robertson, a 78-year-old veteran now deceased who was sentenced to prison for digging ditches on his rural Montana property to protect the area surrounding his home from wildfires. Judicial Watch had filed an amicus curiae brief jointly with…

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