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

admin April 8, 2019 0 Comments

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…

Ex head of the Vatican bank faced threats and intimidation

Ex head of the Vatican bank faced threats and intimidation

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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…

Vatican Bank: Follow the Money if you can

Vatican Bank: Follow the Money if you can

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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…

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…

Four U.S. states advance abortion bans, conscience protections, and more pro-life measures

Four U.S. states advance abortion bans, conscience protections, and more pro-life measures

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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…

UNPLANNED: New movie tells story of abortion clinic worker turned pro-life advocate, See Trailer

UNPLANNED: New movie tells story of abortion clinic worker turned pro-life advocate, See Trailer

Thomas M. Loarie April 2, 2019 0 Comments

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…

Heartbeat Bills Gaining Momentum, Could They Prompt Overturn Roe vs Wade?

Heartbeat Bills Gaining Momentum, Could They Prompt Overturn Roe vs Wade?

admin March 28, 2019 0 Comments

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…

Can’t Make This Up: Catholic Journalist in Britain targeted for allegedly “misgendering” (the truth is jaw-dropping, unimaginable)

Can’t Make This Up: Catholic Journalist in Britain targeted for allegedly “misgendering” (the truth is jaw-dropping, unimaginable)

admin March 27, 2019 0 Comments

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…

Trump Administration Stops Backdoor Funding to Foreign Organizations that Perform Abortion

Trump Administration Stops Backdoor Funding to Foreign Organizations that Perform Abortion

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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…

Whistleblower leaks from Google ‘diversity training’ workbook: gender ‘socially constructed’

Whistleblower leaks from Google ‘diversity training’ workbook: gender ‘socially constructed’

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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…

Our Future, Our Hope: Hear Chicago Youth Honor Unborn in Take-Your-Breath-Way Song at State Capitol…

Our Future, Our Hope: Hear Chicago Youth Honor Unborn in Take-Your-Breath-Way Song at State Capitol…

admin March 27, 2019 0 Comments

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…

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

Michael Saltis March 21, 2019 0 Comments

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?

admin March 21, 2019 0 Comments

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…

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