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…
Crux—In two recent interviews, the former president of the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), better known as the Vatican Bank, spoke about the relationship between members of the Roman Curia and a failed Italian bank, the manipulation of accounts at the IOR and how working in the Vatican led him almost to lose…
On January 4, 2013, a month before Pope Benedict resigned, the Italian Central Bank turned the lights off on the entire Vatican. The Vatican no longer had the ability to make any electronic financial transactions. Italian authorities asserted that the Vatican was not in compliance with international money-laundering rules. This was a clear message that…
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…
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…
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…
LifeSiteNews—A variety of pro-life measures continued to advance this week through the legislatures of Alabama, Indiana, South Carolina, and Texas, continuing a trend of state-level proactivity that has frustrated pro-abortion activists uncertain of Roe v. Wade’s future. Introduces in the Alabama House on Tuesday, the Alabama Human Life Protection Act bans abortion for any reason…
CNA—A movie chronicling the conversion of a former Planned Parenthood clinic director who became a pro-life advocate will be released in theaters nationwide on March 29. A trailer for the film Unplanned, which tells the story of Abby Johnson, was released on Thursday. Based off Johnson’s book of the same name, Unplanned recounts her…
With a new conservative majority on the Supreme Court, several states this year have seized on the opportunity to advance pro-life legislation aiming to overturn Roe v. Wade. One type of pro-life legislation in particular is increasingly gaining momentum on the state level—heartbeat bills which ban abortion from the moment an unborn child’s heartbeat can…
Imagine reading in history books that there was a once a civilization in which mothers would castrate their teenage sons in the name of transgender identity, would be praised for imposing such a permanent, life-altering action on their child, and would publicly share details of the entire ordeal and promote its benefits. Just a few…
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a press briefing yesterday, announced the Trump administration is expanding the Mexico City Policy to stop backdoor funding to pro-abortion organizations. Under the new expanded policy, foreign NGOs receiving U.S. foreign health assistance will be prohibited from providing funding to any other foreign NGOs that perform or promote…
LifeSiteNews—The Google employee who recently shed light on multiple aspects of the internet giant’s liberal leanings is back with another example, this time leaking two pages he says are from the company’s ideologically charged “diversity training” materials. Mike Wacker is a Google software engineer LifeSiteNews covered earlier this month for a series of tweets in…
Did you hear this on the news? We sure didn’t! Amid the 2019 headline-grabbing, increasingly rabid, unabashed and unrestrained national and local campaigns against unborn babies, not to mention against their mothers and fathers who will suffer the rest of their lives for agreeing to such horror, it only seems appropriate to recall with tears…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
The unrestrained migration of hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim immigrants into European countries the last few years—most notably in Germany, where German Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed more than a million Syrian refugees to pour into the country’s cities and towns, but also in other European countries—seems to have come to an abrupt about-face. This…
