Daily Archives: August 5, 2012

Women in Combat Created on August 02, 2012 Written by Crusade Magazine Colonel Gordon D. Batcheller, USMC, Ret. www.tfp.org/tfp-home/fighting-for-our-culture/women-in-combat.html During the 1968 Tet Offensive, then Captain Gordon Batcheller earned the Navy Cross when his unit, Company A, 1st Battalion Marines, engaged a numerically superior force of the North Vietnamese Army. Although injured by shrapnel, he aggressively led his men in a fierce assault against the enemy and was Read more [...]

Martyrology-August 7th Roman Martyrology-August 7th- on this date in various years- At Naples in Campania, St. Cajetan the Theatine, confessor, founder of the Clerics Regular, who, through singular confidence in God, made his disciples practise the primitive mode of life of the apostles. Being renowned for miracles, he was ranked among the saints by Clement X. At Arezzo in Tuscany, the birthday of St. Donatus, bishop and martyr, who among other miraculous deeds by his prayers (as is related Read more [...]

  From Rorate: August 5, 2012 De Mattei: “Religious Liberty – or liberty for Christians?” Among the slogans of “politically correct” language there is the term “religious liberty”, which is used incorrectly at times by Catholics as a synonym for freedom for the Church or freedom for Christians. In reality the terms and concepts are different and it is necessary to clarify them. The ambiguity present in the Conciliar declaration Dignitatis humanae (1965) arose from the lack Read more [...]

More Boston Controversies: Chick-fil-A and Catholic Relief Services bostoncatholicinsider.wordpress.com/2012/08/05/more-boston-controversies-chick-fil-a-and-catholic-relief-services/ The Boston Archdiocese has remained silent for yet another week on the Chick-fil-A fracas. Nothing in the Friday edition of The Boston Pilot, and nothing on Cardinal Sean’s Blog updated Friday evening. Sources tell BCI that Fr. Bryan Hehir advised the Cardinal not to say anything, and the Cardinal listened. Read more [...]