Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-31



Chemical Abortion Initiative
Planned Parenthood in the North Star State is defying accurate information provided earlier this year by the Food and Drug Administration … offering the dangerous RU-486 abortifacient at a new clinic.
LifeNews.com

Death Without Dignity
Oregon might not be the only place you can kill yourself legally … if activists in Massachusetts have their way.
CNN.com

Catholic Hospitals Dissent
Catholic Hospitals in Spain are ignoring the directives of their local bishop …continuing to openly offer contraception and abortion.
LifesiteNews.com

Public School Pride
Parents in Ottawa Canada are expressing disgust … after the Ottawa School board played a major role at this year’s Gay Pride Parade in the nation’s capital.
LifesiteNews.com

Communion Controversy
The Archbishop of Glasgow is saying that you shouldn’t kneel for communion … despite the holy Fathers encouragement to the Church Universal to receive the Blessed Scarament in this posture.
Catholic News Agency

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-30




Catholic Education Explosion
Indiana parents are being given the choice of where to send their children to school thanks to a new voucher program … and the overwhelming preference is Catholic schools.
CatholicVote.org


Poised for Persecution
The Communist Party Chief of Tibet known for being tough on religious groups … is being removed from his post and placed in the area surrounding Beijing in China.
Reuters
CatholicCulture.org

New U.S. Nuncio
A member of the government in Vatican City has been appointed as the Pope’s new Apostolic Nuncio to the United States.
Vatican Insider


Vaccinations Without Consent
Parents in California may soon be told that they have to surrender their consent to the state … because the legislature may pass a bill allowing their children to be vaccinated for sexually transmitted diseases without their knowledge.
The California Catholic Daily

The Wedding is Off
Better return your gifts … Sesame Street creators have announced that Bert and Ernie will NOT be getting married.
LifeSiteNews.com

Monday, August 29, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-29



Abortion Speedbump
The United Kingdom is questioning if women considering abortions are being given adequate information … and is introducing measures to crack down on abortion clinics.
Telegraph.co.uk

Virginia Abortion Clinic Regulations
Many abortion mills in the Commonwealth may soon be shutdown … due to a proposal in front of the Board of Health that will label abortion clinics as hospitals ... and require them to meet the same facility standards.
HuffingtonPost.com

Sand Box to “Sex Box"
Thousands of parents in Basel, Switzerland are expressing outrage as the government forces sex education on their children with a program that includes what is initially being called a “sex box.”
TheBlaze.com

Islamic Propoganda War
The Iranian regime is attacking Christianity by spreading propaganda and seizing thousands of bibles in the name of Islam.
Cybernet News Service

Denomination Dying Off
While the number of Catholics in the United States continues to decline year after year … experts say roughly one-third of Episcopalian churches in America will be gone in three years.
Virtue Online

Friday, August 26, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-26



Catholics in Combat
There has been a significant uptick in the number of seminarians applying to become priests serving in the military despite the restrictions on religious liberty after the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
CalCatholic.com

Earthquake Damage
The huge earthquake that rocked the Eastern seaboard has done significant damage to Catholic Churches.
Catholic News Service

Shriven to Perfection
Our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI is fervently urging priests to spend more time in the confessional … with the release of a new guide for confessors.
NCRegister.com

Communist Catholic Turf War
The communist government in China is cracking down on underground catholic priests and laymen ... and detaining them … as tensions rise over the recent round of illicit ordinations by the communist government.
TheBlaze.com


Legal Status for Catholics
The Catholic Church in Georgia is now a recognizable legal entity in the former soviet republic of Georgia.
L'Osservatore Romano

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-25



Innocence Lost
The Obama administration is again dabbling in sex education for children … by issuing a statement through the office of Health and Human Services that labels children as … “sexual beings.”
FoxNews.com


Homosexual Porn Curriculum
Shakespeare and Homer have been replaced in high schools … and the required reading now includes graphic sexual material.
TheBlaze.com

Pedophilia as “Normal"
A Recent conference for pedophilia activists is marshaling sexually disordered activism for its next takeover … the legalization if pedophilia.
LifesiteNews.com

Controversial Consultant
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is currently listing a homosexual rights activist as one of its chief consultants.
LifesiteNews.com

World Youth Day Complements Economy
Contrary to claims made by socialist and atheist activists … World Youth Day gave a depressed Spanish economy a tremendous shot in the arm.
CatholicNewsAgency

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-24



Islam Dominating France
Catholicism in France is being overrun by an intense Islamic population … according to a new report by the Hudson Institute.
CatholicCulture.com

Persecution of Churches
Muslim discrimination against Christians has reared its ugly head again in Indonesia … this time in the form of a mayor’s proposal to ban Catholic Churches from streets with Islamic names.
TheBlaze.com

Questionable Ecumenism
A Catholic high school in Cincinnati has parents enraged … because the school has planned to break bread with an Islamic group linked to terrorism in a so-called “interfaith” event to celebrate Ramadan.
World Net Daily

Fertility Management Catholic???
A new technology can help couples conceive or avoid pregnancy while still living their Faith … according to the Catholic News Agency.
Catholic News Agency

Vatican to Offer SSPX Ordinariate
Though formal talks have ended …. the head of the Society of St. Pius X has been called to Rome for more discussions on the 14th of September this year.
Vatican Insider

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-23



Brazilian Bombshell
The economy isn’t the only thing exploding in Brazil … as the AFP Newswire reports … so is the Muslim Population.
CatholicCulture.org


Post-Scandal Priest Association
In the wake of the Philadelphia abuse scandal … priests of the Archdiocese are forming an independent association of their own to deal with what they are calling a quote …“vacuum of information.”
CatholicCulture.org

Calling Obama Out
Pro-Life States that have defunded Planned Parenthood are standing their ground despite threats from the Obama administration to interfere in state government matters.
LifeNews.com-New Hampshire
LifeNews.com-Kansas
LifeNews.com-North Carolina

“Father” Dorothy
The Bishop of San Jose, California is installing a lay woman to oversee a parish instead of a new pastor.
CalCatholic.com

Phoenix Rising
The Diocese of Phoenix Arizona is now forbidding girls to serve mass on the altar at its Cathedral … because it is a privilege for boys interested in the priesthood.
AZcentral.com

Monday, August 22, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-22




Same Sex a Bad Fit
A bridal shop in New Jersey is being raked over the coals by critics … after refusing to sell a dress to a lesbian for her civil union ceremony.
TheBlaze.com


Adoption Woes in Illinois
A judge in the state of Illinois is embracing the homosexual agenda and exposing children to the dangers of disordered life styles … by Ruling against the adoption policies of Catholic Charities.
CatholicCulture.org


Washington Slut Walk
A recently resolved scandal in Canada has become the focus of a protest in front of the Washington Monument … that involves screaming profanities, cross-dressing and public nudity.
WashingtonTimes.com

Friday, August 19, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-19




More Social Media Persecution
The teacher of the year in a Florida school district is being punished for exercising his rights to free speech on Facebook … after he criticized same sex marriage legalization in New York.
The Orlando Sentinel


Catholic College Invites Dissent
A homosexual activist … who specializes in promoting deviant lifestyles … is joining the faculty of a Catholic College in Andover, Massachusetts.
CardinalNewmanSociety.org


Little Girl Lingerie
Parents can now buy provocative lingerie for little girls as young as four … from a French fashion designer currently under fire for trying to sexualize children.
TheBlaze.com

Photos of Martyrdom: Anti-Catholic Protestors Taunt Pilgrims in Madrid

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-18


Cleric Condones Abortion

A Chicago priest is covering up his support of Planned Parenthood denying his organization had anything to do with them.

LifeSiteNews.com


Catholic Keynote for Pedophiles

A chief consultant of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for over twenty years is the Keynote speaker at a symposium in Maryland aimed at legalizing pedophilia.

SnapWisconsin.com


WYD Priests lift Excommunications

Priest confessors at World Youth Day have been given permission to lift the ban of excommunication if penitents confess the sin of abortion.

CatholicCulture.org

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-17


Police Prevent Gas Attack

A Mexican Catholic pilgrim has been arrested by police for plans to gas anti-pope protestors scheduled to gather for the pontiff's arrival.

BBC.co.uk

Conscience Clause Compromised

A hospital in the United Kingdom is backing down after trying to force two Catholic nurses to take a hand in abortions.

LifeSiteNews.com

Underpopulation Crisis

Canada's older population is dying off while there are not enough children being born to replace them thanks to abortion and contraception.

LifeSiteNews.com

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-16


Gregorian Chant at World Youth Day

That is the beautiful sound of children's voices coming from the St. Mary's Student Schola from Norwalk, Connecticut.

NCRegister.com


ACLU Bullying

Your children may soon be exposed to homosexual porn in their schools thanks to the The American Civil Liberties Union.

HeroicNews.org

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TheGAVoice.com


Calling Sex with Kids “Normal”

The American Psychological Association may soon drop pedophilia from its list of mental disorders as mental healthcare professionals push to normalize sex with children.

DailyCaller.com

Monday, August 15, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-15



States Reject Obamacare
Obamacare has been labeled unconstitutional in appellate court … in a move that deals his administration a blow that may be the first of many.
Lifesitenews.com

Obamacare Funding Abstinence
Florida’s Department of Health is funding abstinence education programs … using cash from Obama’s national healthcare plan.
Lifesitenews.com

Documenting Heresy
A new documentary will soon air based on an excommunicated woman who claims to have been ordained a Catholic Priest.
Kentucky.com

Friday, August 12, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-12



Sex Education Back in Session
Parents in New York City will no longer be explaining the birds and the bees to their kids, because city government is taking control.
The Blaze.com


Contraception in Kentucky Hospitals
The Church’s teaching on contraception is causing the Governor of Kentucky to question a large but controversial healthcare merger.
CatholicCulture.org


Abortionist on Staff
A Catholic Hospital in Colorado has sparked outrage because its longest serving physician is none other than infamous abortionist Richard Grossman.
Lifesitenews.com

Beckham’s Baby Defended
A population expert from the London School of Economics is calling out critics in the United Kingdom for condemning the Beckham’s as bad examples after the recent birth of their baby girl.
CatholicNewsAgency.com

Sesame Street Sodomites
Now that same-sex marriage is legal … homosexual activists are calling for Bert and Ernie to tie the knot.
TheBlaze.com



Thursday, August 11, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-11


Gender Testing

Some people are relying on Research Scientists and Marketers to determine whether or not it is ethical to choose the gender of their unborn child.

TheBlaze.com


No Parental Consent for Transexuals

Parents in Poland may soon have nothing to say about whether or not their child can have a sex change operation.

TheNews.pl


Incarcerated Transsexual Treatment

Wisconsin taxpayers are now paying for transsexual inmates to have hormonal treatments.

CourtHouseNews.com


Basilica Refuses Pro-Life Pilgrims

The Notre Dame Basilica in Montreal, Canada has turned away pilgrims from its doors because the pro-life message on their T-shirts sent out a “Divisive political message.”

MontrealGazette.com


Popemobile Auction

The Lincoln Continental limousine that chauffeured Pope Paul VI around during his visit to America in 1965 is being offered for sale.

AutomobileMag.com

Israel Approves First-ever Extraction and Freezing of Dead Teen's Eggs

For the first time the Israeli court has approved the extraction and freezing of a dead woman’s eggs, a ruling that The Telegram reports is the first time in the world the door has been opened for a mother to give birth after her death.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-10


Honor-Killing Cover Up

Police in Florida are said to be cowering in fear of reprisal from Muslims if they tell the truth about an alleged honor killing that took place.

JihadWatch.org


The Politics of Persecution

It looks like the Pakistani Government is not interested in religious equality or harmony within its borders.

CatholicNewsAgency.com

JihadWatch.org


A Bitter Pill for UK Pharmacists

Christians pharmacists in the United Kingdom are being forced to dispense the morning after pill against their consciences because of new regulations governing the countries pharmaceutical industry.

CatholicNews.com


Suspending Catholic Teaching

A Jesuit-run college is punishing its students for standing up against Homosexuality.

LifeSiteNews.com


Time for an Apology

A Time-magazine bloggers anti-Catholic remarks has many Catholics across the country demanding an apology.

CatholicLeague.org

WDTPRS.com

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-09


Archdiocese Advertises Homosexuality

The Chicago Archdiocese has revealed through a newspaper advertisement that it has been hosting gay masses for the past twenty-three years.

CatholicCulture.org


APA Re-Affirms Homosexual Support

The American Psychological Association has come completely out of the closet to completely support lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender culture.

LifeSiteNews.com


Kicking the Koran Habit

Denominational Protestant churches across America are fighting the introduction of the Koran into their Sunday services countering the effort by reading the Jewish Torah instead.

IsraelNationNews.com


China Changes Population Policy

China wants to keep abortion around but is going to try prohibiting sex-selective abortions in its culture of population control.

China.org


Atheists' Bragg

The Army is holding an Atheist-themed concert at Fort Bragg in North Carolina after receiving backlash criticism for a Christian-themed event it previously held on the base.

NewsMax.com

Monday, August 8, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-08


Stop Pro-Abort Communion
Top Vatican officials are pushing for the enforcement of Canon Law on abortion activist politicians who try to receive communion.

Maltese Abuse Intervention
Three priests charged with sexual abuse are now sentenced in Malta but the Vatican Sex Crime Chief prosecutor says he had to personally intervene to speed things up.

Western Powers Force Corruption
Powerful countries are bullying poor nations to accept homosexuality, abortion and contraception according to disturbing reports from the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (or C-Fam).

Suffering for the Faith
Four Catholic priests in China have been detained causing the faithful to appeal to the Vatican for assistance in saving their lives.

Southern State Prayer Ban
North Carolina residents are fighting each other in court over the name of Jesus used in prayer at a recent gathering of local government.

Friday, August 5, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-05


Mexican Bishop Favors Abortion

A Mexican bishop has been exposed for heading two organizations that support abortion.

LifeSiteNews.com

Ordinance Against Life

San Francisco City government is attacking the free speech rights of the city's crisis pregnancy centers with a new law proposal.

LifeSiteNews.com

Orthodox Prison Prejudice

The Orthodox Church is banning Catholic Priests from visiting inmates in the prison system in Belarus.

Forum18.org

Burqua Ban

An Italian law approved by the parliamentary commission seeks to outlaw Muslim face coverings.

TheBlaze.com

Military Bans Bible

A military ethics class on just wars has been suspended from the Air Force because it includes biblical quotes and references.

TheBlaze.com

Catholic News Roundup 08-04

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-04

John Paul Center Finally Finds a Buyer

Many questions and concerns are being raised regarding the multimillion dollar John Paul II Center in Washington D.C. now that the Knights of Columbus have announced that they will be buying it.

CatholicNewsAgency.com


Boston College Sanctions Desecration

Faithful in Boston are clamoring for an explanation from the Archdiocese after the desecration of sacred images took place during the demolition of a Chapel on university property.

BostonCatholicInsider


Pro-Lifers Under Fire

A judge has ruled that a former congressman can proceed in his defamation suit against a prominent pro-life organization.

FoxNews.com


Massive Pro-Life Rallies

As many as twenty thousand people flocked to two pro-life rallies held in the Philippines last week organized by Human Life International (HLI).

LifeNews.com


Cowboy Monks Out of the Saddle

A lack of vocations is forcing monks who have been roping and riding since the turn of the last century to hang up their hat.

CatholicVote.org

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-03


Outrage in Kansas

The Kansas law meant to strip Planned Parenthood of funding has been temporarily blocked by a Federal judge.

LifeNews.com


Four for Florida

Pro-life Governor Rick Scott has signed four new pro-life bills into Florida law books during a ceremony at the governor's mansion.

LifeNews.com


Catholic Pro-Abort Agenda

An international pro-abortion group which is Catholic in name only is trying to convincing the Polish government that the Catholic Church really does support abortion.

PRNewsWire.co.uk


Rainbow Ministry of Mexico

The Vatican is turning its eyes toward a Mexican diocese's homosexual ministry effort questioning whether or not it should be affiliated with the Church.

CatholicNews.com

InfoCatolica.com

Catholic.org


Embryonic Debate

Catholic Bioethicists are clashing over a topic left undefined by the Church in matters of doctrine embryonic adoption or the adoption of children through the implantation of an embryo left over from someone else's In-Vitro Fertilization attempt.

LifeSiteNews.com

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-02


Attack From Within

A dissident group with a concentration of Catholic clergy supporters is stirring the pot of controversy in Chicago, Illinois over a priest threatened with dismissal for publicly supporting the ordination of women.

NYTimes.com


Dark Mark of History

A trial beginning this week in Philadelphia will mark the first time a Church official is charged for the administrative actions of knowingly transferring pedophile priests to unsuspecting parishes.

Boston.com


Forced Contraception

The Obama Administration is calling for mandated population control made clear after Health and Human Services (or the HHS) released a statement earlier this week saying that sterilizations and contraceptives will be a mandatory part of Obamacare.

LifeSiteNews.com

HHS.gov


Polygamist Plays Prophet

The trial of Warren Jeffs polygamist, alleged rapist and self-proclaimed prophet has threatened his prosecutors with divine vengeance as he claims to be relaying messages from God.

TheBlaze.com


Father Keeps Abortion Billboard

For now the fight of an aborted baby's father to keep his pro-life billboard up has paid off.

CNSNews.com

Monday, August 1, 2011

Catholic News Roundup 08-01


Gay Mass Number Two!!!

The homosexual liturgy in Boston permitted by Cardinal O'Malley is now being followed by a Bishop saying a gay mass in New York later this fall.

LifeSiteNews.com


Archbishop's Homosexual Mafia!!!

Accusers of retired Archbishop John Favalora of Florida have compiled a disturbing report of the secretive homosexual superculture he maintained while he was Archbishop of Miami … influencing every diocese in the Sunshine State.

Gawker.com

CatholicCulture.org


Homosexual Indoctrination Attempt!!!

Seven suicides over the past two years have led to an explosive reactionary lawsuit from homosexual activists in a Minnesota school district.

TheBlaze.com


Cloyne Sex Abuse Rebuttal!!!

The controversial situation in Ireland following the sex abuse scandal in the Cloyne Diocese will be directly addressed later this month … due to a swap of Apostolic Nuncio's.

Independent.ie

TheJournal.ie


Activists Push Sharia Law!!!

Tens of thousands of radical Muslims came together over the weekend to call for a sharia law take-over in Egypt.

TheBlaze.com

U.K. JUDGE TELLS TEACHER SEX-OFFENDER BUSTED WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY: ‘I DON’T CRITICIZE YOU FOR BEING…ATTRACTED TO CHILDREN’

Well this is abhorrent to say the least. A school teacher who escaped jail with a suspended sentence after owning up to possessing literally 4,500 pornographic images, some of children as young as two years old, was told by his presiding judge that she did not criticize him “for being a teacher who’s attracted to children.”