Daily Archives: June 17, 2012

Real Catholic TV service removes ‘Catholic’ from new name [Church Militant TV] Detroit, Mich., Jun 17, 2012 / www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/real-catholic-tv-service-removes-catholic-from-new-name/ (CNA).- The online network known as Real Catholic TV will omit the term “Catholic” in its new name, after a dispute with the Archdiocese of Detroit about its right to use the term under canon law. Michael Voris, host of the network’s feature “The Vortex,” said in a June 12 video Read more [...]

[A result of Rahm Emanuel's leaving the white House to return to local politics in Chicago?] [Cook County Illinois Democrats following the Obama regime's example declaring the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional?] State’s gay marriage ban unlawful, Alvarez says 6/15/2012 By Rex Huppke and Stacy St. Clair Chicago Tribune per catholiccitizens.org/press/pressview.asp?c=53948 The fight for same-sex marriage rights in Illinois took an unprecedented turn Thursday as Cook Read more [...]

Some of the most recent upgrades to AQ. – Anyone with a status of “contributor” or above can post pictures in comments using HTML image tags. – Allowed many other HTML tags to be used by contributors and above. – Commenters can edit their comments up to 30 minutes after posting. – Moderators have ability to ban users by username. – External links in posts and comments will boot to a new window. – Added Facebook “like” button on the main index page. – Added the AQ favicon to address bar. – Read more [...]

10 killed in Nigeria Catholic Cathedral [Requiescant in pace] Posted by New Catholic at 6/17/2012 rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/06/10-killed-in-nigeria-catholic-cathedral.html More attacks by Islamic terrorists today claimed the lives of scores of Christians in the state of Kaduna, Nigeria, including 10 killed and 50 injured in an attack to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, of the Diocese of Zaria: From the local paper Daily Trust [ dailytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=165214:breaking-news-kaduna-confirmed-death-toll-now-34-156-wounded&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8 Read more [...]

Novena in Honor of St. John the Baptist [June 15 to June 23] By Scott P. Richert catholicism.about.com/od/prayers/qt/In_Honor_of_St_John_the_Baptist.htm Icon of Saint John the Baptist on the front of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate in Belgrade, Serbia. This traditional prayer in honor of St. John the Baptist has three parts, corresponding to the three stages of his life: his decision to go into the wilderness to practice a life of penance and mortification; his preaching Read more [...]

Martyrology-June 19th Roman Martyrology-June 19th- on this date in various years- At Florence, St. Juliana Falconieri, virgin, foundress of the Sisters of the Order of the Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who was placed among the holy virgins by the Sovereign Pontiff, Clement XII. At Milan, the holy martyrs Gervase and Protase, brothers. The former, by order of the judge Astasius, was scourged with leaded whips for so long that he expired. The latter, after being scourged with rods, Read more [...]

Martyrology-June 18th Roman Martyrology-June 18th- on this date in various years- At Edessa in Mesopotamia, St. Ephraem, deacon of the church of Edessa in the time of Emperor Valens and confessor. After suffering many trials for the faith of Christ and gaining great renown for holiness and learning, he went to rest in the Lord. He was declared a doctor of the Universal Church by Pope Benedict XV At Rome, on the Ardeatine Way, in the persecution of Diocletian, the birthday of the saintly Read more [...]

Cardinal Burke optimistic on reconciliation with SSPX Catholic News Service 15 June 2012 By Francis X. Rocca www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1202545.htm VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A senior Vatican official voiced optimism about reconciliation talks with the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, while acknowledging the longer-term challenge of bringing the breakaway group under papal leadership. “I believe that the reconciliation will take place, and then we have to devote ourselves Read more [...]

Start novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help June 18, ending June 26 vigil of the Feast Day. NOVENA PRAYER Mother of Perpetual help, thu art the dispenser of every grace that God grants us in our misery. For this reason He hast made thee so powerful, so rich, and so kind that thou might help us in our needs. (State your petition here.) Thou art the advocate of the most wretched and abandoned sinners, if they but come to thee. Come to my aid for I commend myself to thee. In Read more [...]