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Irish cardinal laments increase in suicide

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 3:16 am
Cardinal Seán Brady of Armagh, the Primate of All Ireland, urged parents to take time to spend time with and listen to their children as he lamented the increase of suicide. "The...

Cardinal assesses strengths, weaknesses of Africa

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 3:15 am
One of Africa's leading cardinals has assessed the continent's strong and weak points during 2011. Cardinal Wilfrid Napier of Durban, South Africa--appointed by Pope Benedict as...

Anti-Christian vandalism, attack in Karnataka

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 3:13 am
Three incidents of anti-Christian violence have taken place during the Christmas season in Mangalore, a city of nearly 500,000 in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka. On ...

Egypt: Christians' homes burned over Facebook Muhammad images

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 3:13 am
Shouting "Allahu akbar" [Allah is greater], residents of Assuit, a southern Egyptian city, burned Christians' homes after images deemed insulting to Muhammad appeared on a local...

Nigerian prelate urges Christians: ignore terrorist ultimatum to leave area

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 3:11 am
Archbishop John Onaiyekan of Abuja--Nigeria's capital--is urging the nation's Christians to ignore an ultimatum, reportedly issued the Islamist terrorist organization Boko Haram,...

Itinerary announced for Pope's apostolic journey to Mexico, Cuba

Catholic Culture - World News - Jan 3, 2012 at 3:10 am
The episcopal conferences of Mexico and Cuba have announced the itinerary for Pope Benedict's apostolic journey to their nations. Pope Benedict will arrive in León, a central...

QUAERITUR: Genuflecting before a tabernacle

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 3, 2012 at 3:00 am
From a reader: Dear Fr. Z., I am aware that the GIRM for OF Masses requires all passing in front of a tabernacle to BOW instead of genuflect, and for everyone to comport to the...

Report says 26 Church personnel were killed in 2011

EWTN - Vatican News - Jan 3, 2012 at 2:10 am
Vatican City, Jan 3, 2012 / 02:30 am (EWTN News).- An annual report by Vatican-based Fides news agency detailed the violent deaths of at least 26 clergy, religious, and lay...

NH lawsuit seeks info about federal Planned Parenthood grant

EWTN - US Latest News - Jan 3, 2012 at 1:34 am
Concord, N.H., Jan 3, 2012 / 01:34 pm (EWTN News).- A New Hampshire pro-life group's federal lawsuit charges that the Department of Health and Human Services has ignored a legal...

Archdiocese: 'Real Catholic TV' does not speak for Church

Catholic News Agency - General - Jan 3, 2012 at 1:30 am
Detroit, Mich., Jan 3, 2012 / 02:30 am (CNA).- Michael Voris and other hosts of Real Catholic TV should not be broadcasting in the name of the Church, the Archdiocese of Detroit...

Hey Western Washington!

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 3, 2012 at 1:09 am
Hope you come hear me speak this Friday and Saturday! January 6 6:30 AM. Catholic Professionals of Seattle Breakfast. UW Newman Center, Seattle, WA. Topic: 101 Reasons Not to Be...

Fr. Longenecker thinks the Shroud of Turin…

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 3, 2012 at 1:07 am
…is the real deal. So do I. I never bought the gleeful and rushed debunking in 1988 and everything since then has persuaded me it had all the scientific rigor (and hype) of cold...

The Great Enema Continues

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 3, 2012 at 1:05 am
in Vancouver, BC. What can be said that hasn’t been said already? Let justice be done.

If you want extremely versatile children…

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 3, 2012 at 1:03 am
I have just the thing.

Well done Ron Paul

Catholic and Enjoying It! - Jan 3, 2012 at 1:01 am
Dr. No supports religious liberty in the Age of the God King’s hostility to Christian conscience.

Fr. Robert Barron: "Why I Loved to Listen to Christopher Hitchens"

The Sacred Page - Jan 3, 2012 at 12:08 am
If only all Christians could speak with the clarity and charity of this brilliant Catholic theologian. . .

BENEDICT XVI’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR JANUARY 2012

What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Jan 3, 2012 at 12:01 am
BENEDICT XVI’S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR JANUARY 2012 VATICAN CITY, 30 DEC 2011 (VIS) – Pope Benedict’s general prayer intention for January 2012 is: “That the victims of natural...

Requiem for the Third See of Christendom

Crisis Magazine - Church - Jan 2, 2012 at 11:07 pm
Egypt today is the site of a persecution of the Church on a scale unseen in Western Europe since the darkest days of the French Revolution; the Coptic Church is fighting for its...

Free Will and Predestination

Integrated Catholic Life - Jan 2, 2012 at 11:01 pm
If God is not love but only knowledge, then it is difficult or impossible to see how human free will and divine predestination can both be true. But if God is love, there is a way...

Santorum’s wife breaks down after voter asks about their dead child

The Deacon's Bench - Jan 2, 2012 at 10:46 pm
It was sparked by an attack by liberal commenter Alan Colmes on Fox.  Details: During the question and answer portion of Rick Santorum’s second to last campaign event of the...
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