Daily Archives: August 2, 2012

Martyrology-August 4th Roman Martyrology-August 4th- on this date in various years- St. Dominic, confessor, founder of the Order of Friars Preachers, who on the sixth day of this month rested in peace. In the village of Ars, in the diocese of Belley, France, the birthday of St. John Baptist-Mary Vianney, priest and confessor, renowned for his devotion as a parish priest. Pope Pius XI placed him in the number of the saints, ordered that his feast should be observed on the 9th day of this Read more [...]

[Also, there's no such thing as a free lunch or free contraception; someone (the taxpayer or the health insurance premium payer) eventually has to pay] Contraceptive mandate seen detrimental to US economy CWN – August 02, 2012 Pursuing the argument against the HHS contraceptive mandate from a different direction, Edward Morrissey explains in the Fiscal Times that the policy will harm the US economy, by imposing new costs on firms, new costs to workers whose employers drop health-care coverage, Read more [...]

[Cherchez la conspiration!] Peruvian university officials, stripped of ‘Catholic’ status, charge Opus Dei conspiracy CWN – August 02, 2012 Officials at the school known as the Pontifical University of Peru have charged that Opus Dei orchestrated the Vatican decision to strip the university of its “pontifical” and “Catholic” designation. The university officials point to the involvement of Cardinal Luis Cipriani of Lima, who is affiliated with Opus Dei. Efrain Gonzales, the Read more [...]

[Maybe next time they'll keep the grant when they realize they don't have to comply with Church teachings] Group returns CCHD grant, refuses to curb gay advocacy CWN – August 02, 2012 A leftist group in Massachusetts has returned a $40,000 grant from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), fearful that the group would be asked to comply with Church teachings regarding homosexuality, the Boston Globe reports. But a CCHD official wrote to the group, saying that there was no need Read more [...]

US Catholics back bishops on religious freedom, but still favor Obama, poll shows CWN – August 02, 2012 American Catholics generally agree with their bishops regarding the threats to religious freedom, a new Pew Forum poll shows. However, despite tensions between the US hierarchy and the Obama administration on questions of religious freedom and on social issues, the poll finds that a slim majority of Catholics prefer President Obama’s stand on issues such as abortion and homosexuality. Read more [...]

See change: UK pro-lifers rejoice at Humanae Vitae-supporting bishop appointment by Hilary White www.lifesitenews.com/news/see-change-uk-pro-lifers-rejoice-at-humanae-vitae-supporting-bishop-appoint LONDON, August 2, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – British pro-life leaders are welcoming the appointment of a new Catholic bishop of Portsmouth in southern England as a sign that the grip of the Catholic far left is beginning to be prised open by Rome. Back in 2009, Father Philip Egan gave Read more [...]

Talk by Minnesota Secretary of State at Catholic Church postponed, not cancelled by Jean McCarthy www.lifesitenews.com/news/talk-by-minnesota-secretary-of-state-at-catholic-church-postponed-not-cance Washington DC, August 2, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Despite the much-publicized claims that Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie is disinvited from speaking at the Roman Catholic St. Joan of Arc Church, a spokesman for the church says the speaking engagement is only postponed until Read more [...]

Catholic Relief Services received $21.8 million from [culture-of-death] Gates foundation in 2008 by John-Henry Westen www.lifesitenews.com/news/would-us-bishops-org-fund-a-white-supremist-group-doing-good-projects August 1, 2012 (LifeSitenews.com) – The talk-back supporting the US Bishops’ agency’s 2010 donation of $5.3 million to an abortion and contraception promoting organization remains unconvincing. The gist of the response from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is that Read more [...]

Is Cardinal Kurt Koch Intentionally Leading People Into Error [by Comparing SSPX with Luther]? The Joker- President of the [Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity] has compared the Society of St. Pius X with Martin Luther — the Church Father of the Conciliar Church — of all things. Tancred The Eponymous Flower 8/1/12 eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2012/08/is-cardinal-kurt-koch-intentionally.html (kreuz.net) There is “not a hermeneutic of pure continuity” in the interpretation Read more [...]

The thaw Hilary White www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-thaw ROME, August 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – I think I should write more doom and gloom commentary pieces on the state of the Catholic Church in Britain. It seems to have an inverse effect on the situation over there. No sooner had I published my glum thoughts on the Hundred Years of Winter the British Catholic Church seems to be stuck in, than the announcement came that Philip Tartaglia had been appointed to Glasgow. Tartaglia Read more [...]

Report: Irish govt’ considering abortion legalization by ‘stealth’ Hilary White www.lifesitenews.com/news/report-irish-govt-considering-abortion-legalization-by-stealth DUBLIN, August 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life advocates in Ireland fear that the furor in Parliament over the possibility of legislation legalising abortion will result in efforts to bring abortion legalization in through “stealth” tactics, out of the public eye. Reports have come out that significant Read more [...]

‘Campaign for Humanae Vitae’ seeks one million signatures Patrick B. Craine www.lifesitenews.com/news/campaign-for-humanae-vitae-seeks-one-million-signatures August 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York made the stunning admission in March that he believes America’s bishops had failed in their duty to teach the faithful the prophetic message of Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical that reiterated the Church’s condemnation of contraception. Now, Read more [...]

Priests for Life announces it will defy HHS mandate: goes into effect today Ben Johnson www.lifesitenews.com/news/priests-for-life-defies-the-hhs-mandate NEW YORK, August 1, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The HHS mandate goes into effect today for businesses and non-religious employers, but one organization has already announced it will not comply. Fr. Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, said that while that organization “advocates the observance of all just laws…I Read more [...]

Would US Bishop’s org fund a white supremist group doing good projects? John-Henry Westen www.lifesitenews.com/news/would-us-bishops-org-fund-a-white-supremist-group-doing-good-projects EDITORIAL August 1, 2012 (LifeSitenews.com) – The talk-back supporting the US Bishops’ agency’s 2010 donation of $5.3 million to an abortion and contraception promoting organization remains unconvincing. The gist of the response from Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is that the monies went Read more [...]

Evangelical [i.e., conservative Protestant] magazine Christianity Today turns critical eye to contraception Matthew Cullinan Hoffman www.lifesitenews.com/news/evangelical-magazine-christianity-today-turns-critical-eye-to-contraception August 1, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Christianity Today, the flagship magazine of Evangelical Protestantism in the United States, has published a spate of articles questioning the practice of contraception in recent months, accentuating a trend against Read more [...]