Daily Archives: August 3, 2012

Martyrology-August 5th On this date in various years- At Rome, on the Esquiline, the Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary of the Snows. At Chalons in France, St. Memmius, a Roman citizen, who was consecrated bishop of that city by St. Peter the Apostle, and brought to the truth of the Gospel the people committed to his care. At Rome, during the persecution of Diocletian, the martyrdom of twenty-three holy martyrs, who were beheaded on the Salarian Way, and buried at the foot of Cucumer Read more [...]

ND Prof: Notre Dame is Not a Catholic University blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/08/03/nd-prof-notre-dame-is-not-a-catholic-university/ Dr. Alfred Freddoso, Notre Dame’s John and Jean Oesterle Professor of Thomistic Studies, wrote the introduction to Professor Charles E. Rice’s book What Happened to Notre Dame? detailing why he believes Notre Dame is not so much a Catholic university anymore but a campus that is merely “tolerant” of Catholicism. According to The Sycamore Read more [...]

G’Town LGBTQ Training on Video blog.cardinalnewmansociety.org/2012/08/03/gtown-lgbtq-training-on-video/ A short video has surfaced that purports to show LGBTQ sensitivity training for certain incoming freshman at Georgetown University. The Community Scholars Program at the Center for Multicultural Equity and Access at Georgetown University reaches out to disadvantaged youth and provides full scholarships and assistance. These students attend a five-week summer intensive on campus Read more [...]

“In Medjugorje the Gospa Waits” — for the Homo-Porn Cardinal [Schoenborn] Tancred The Eponymous Flower 8/2/12 eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2012/08/in-medjogorje-gospa-waits-for-homo-porn.html Edit: Just to head you off at the pass, the accusation being made below that this Cardinal is protecting the Austrian abortion industry and promoting homosexuality is well documented. Kreuz.net‘s opinion of the intelligence of Neoconservatives you can infer for yourself. A Pious Entrance Read more [...]

International Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage to Rome November 2012 Posted by Augustinus at 8/02/2012 rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2012/08/international-summorum-pontificum.html Rorate Caeli has received the following press release. On the Feast of All Saints (1st November), an international ‘Summorum Pontificum’ pilgrimage to Rome The Coetus Internationalis pro Summorum Pontificum has just been constituted in Rome by representatives of several associations of faithful, including Read more [...]

Humanist weddings now outnumber Catholic weddings in Scotland CWN – August 03, 2012 More weddings in Scotland are now conducted by the Humanist Society than by the Catholic Church, according to newly released government statistics. Of the 29,135 marriages that took place in 2011, there were 15,092 civil weddings, 5,557 Church of Scotland weddings, 2,486 humanist weddings, 1,729 Catholic weddings, 865 Assembly of God weddings, and 694 Anglican weddings. In addition, there were 554 homosexual Read more [...]

British judge rules 10-year-old Jewish girl may seek baptism [although as an Anglican] CWN – August 03, 2012 A British judge has ruled that a 10-year-old Jewish girl may convert to Anglicanism and seek baptism. “Clearly her upbringing for the first eight years of her life lacked any significant religious teaching upon which her own moral compass could be based,” the judge stated in his ruling. At the age of eight, her parents divorced, and her father converted to Christianity. When Read more [...]