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Breitbart News by Ken Klukowski 1 May 2013, 8:12 AM PDT The Pentagon has released a statement confirming that soldiers could be prosecuted for promoting their faith: “Religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense…Court martials and non-judicial punishments are decided on a case-by-case basis…”. The statement, released to Fox News, follows a Breitbart News report on Obama administration Pentagon appointees meeting with anti-Christian extremist Mikey Weinstein Read more [...]

Source: USA Today Girl brings First Communion to ailing father Sean Dobbin, Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle  4:27 p.m. EDT April 27, 2013   ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Erin Day is 8 years old, and most of the time, Erin Day acts 8 years old. She fusses when her mother tries to put on her jewelry. When she poses for photographs, she presses her glasses to her face, giggles, and says it’s her brainy look. And she recently got a toy stuck in her hair, and responded by chopping Read more [...]

Source: 10news.com Controversial drag show held at University of San Diego despite protests SAN DIEGO – A controversial drag show was held Thursday night at University of San Diego after Catholics, in the days leading up to the event, tried to have it shut down. Cameras were not allowed in but the show was sold out. As this year’s Supreme Drag Superstar was beginning inside USD’s Shiley Theatre, so was another on the other side of campus. A group of devout Catholics, some students, Read more [...]

Source: The courier journal Dissident Catholic group to ordain Kentucky woman as priest Written by Peter Smith The Courier-Journal Apr. 24 Rosemarie Smead poses at St. Andrew United Church of Christ. Smead will be ordained April 27 im a service of the dissident group of Roman Catholic Womenpriests. April 16, 2013 / Michael Clevenger/The Courier-Journal Rosemarie Smead sees herself as preparing all her life for the step she’s about to take. She was brought Read more [...]

Source: The Brooklyn Ink Nuns in Brooklyn Perplexed by Pope Francis’ Position on American Nuns Wed, Apr 24, 2013 By Tanay Warerkar Sister Tiziana Merletti(left), along with other sisters of the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor at their Brooklyn office. (PHOTO: Courtesy the Franciscan Sisters of the Poor)   It’s been just over a month since Jose Mario Bergoglia was elected Pope Francis. He has already been hailed the ‘Pope of the Poor,” and has been commended Read more [...]

Dutch Court Says Pedophilia Advocacy Group Martijn Can Continue by Cíntia Taylor Apr 5, 2013 4:45 AM EDT Judges in the Netherlands have ruled that an organization that wants to legalize pedophilia can continue to exist. Cintia Taylor speaks with the group’s most recent leader. When Marthijn Uittenbogaard’s lawyer contacted him with the news that his pro-pedophilia group could continue to exist, he took to Twitter: “Fortunately, there are still wise judges,” he wrote. Uittenbogaard Read more [...]

Source: Worldcrunch   Published on 2013-04-03 11:41:20 THE VATICAN’S MOST DASHING MAN, BUT CAN DON GIORGIO STAY AMONG ITS MOST POWERFUL? He was Benedict XVI’s right-hand man, and now runs daily operations for Francis, but it’s still not clear where German-born Georg Ganswein fits into other power struggles in Rome. By Gernot Facius and Lucas Wiegelmann DIE WELT/Worldcrunch VATICAN CITY - In Nov. 2011 the press got wind of the fact that the Catholic Church in Germany ownedWeltbild, Read more [...]

Source: Center for Morality in Public Life The Pope’s Painful Liturgies By Andrew Haines | March 19, 2013 As much as I enjoy talking him up, watching Pope Francis celebrate Mass is—at least for me—a painful experience. From what I can tell, I’m not alone. There’s an almost unchecked suspicion that the Holy Father’s tendency toward simplicity will usher in the death of the Benedictine reforms. The real suffering servant, some claim, will not turn out to Read more [...]

Source: Reuters New pope’s style an implicit criticism of Benedict’s papacy By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor VATICAN CITY | Mon Mar 18, 2013 5:05pm EDT (Reuters) – With every day Pope Francis reigns, his style reveals more contrasts with his predecessor Benedict in ways that amount to an unspoken criticism of how the retired pontiff conducted his papacy. The enthusiasm former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio has ignited among Catholics by approaching the job like a parish priest rather Read more [...]

Conclave: “Primaries” get under way The first voting session to elect the new Pope will take place on Tuesday 12th at 6 pm. The strongest candidates are Scola and Scherer Andrea Tornielli vatican city 3/10/13 vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/news/detail/articolo/conclave-23032/ The Conclave’s real test, after the “extra omnes” pronounced by the Master of Ceremonies and the closure of the Sistine Chapel’s heavy wooden door, will come at around 6 pm this coming Tuesday. Read more [...]

“The Vatican must change” Reforms and relations with bishops, the issues of the Congregations andrea tornielli vatican city 3/9/13 vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/conclave-23007/ Collegiality and the reform of the Curia. It had never happened before that so many Cardinals were asking for a change of direction in the management of the Vatican curial “machine” and were taking on the issue of the organization of dicasteries, their coordination, and their Read more [...]

[$1000 will get you the inside story from the Vatican Insider's insider. Who is that: Cardinal Mahoney tweeting? Can jamming equipment in the conclave be jerry-rigged to transmit rather than jam with some sort of a carrier wave?] Italian daily “La Stampa” launches live blog on papal conclave 03/ 4/2013 Keep abreast of all news concerning the election of the new Pope with La Stampa and Vatican Insider’s new live blog vatican insider staff turin vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/news/detail/articolo/live-blog-conclave-22882/ Read more [...]

Dark Horses II: An Italian and two more Germans by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent www.lifesitenews.com/news/dark-horses-ii-an-italian-and-two-more-germans ROME, March 8, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The secular media, with its obession with sex and politics, scandals and hidden agendas, often misses stories that would be of real interest to their audience. This week, as we all wait for the announcement of the date of the opening of the conclave, a lot of people in the Church are asking, Read more [...]

Anti-faith secularists are holding up scientific progress: USCCB pro-life official John Jalsevac www.lifesitenews.com/news/anti-faith-secularists-are-holding-up-scientific-progress-usccb-pro-life-of ROME, March 8, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Utilitarianism isn’t useful.” With that paradox Richard Doerflinger, the Associate Director of the Pro-Life Secretariat at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), summed up the thesis of his address to the annual General Read more [...]

Scola becomes “papabile” again: The Americans are also with him 03/ 8/2013 Cardinal Angelo Scola: Well-liked by Ratzinger, he is seen as an outsider to the Roman Curia. After four days of discussions, the first alliances take shape ANDREA TORNIELLI vatican city vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/detail/articolo/22983/ After four days of discussions and six General Congregations, the groups and the strongest “papabili” are emerging more clearly in the meeting room but Read more [...]

Two lay people involved in Vatileaks scandal: Cardinals want their names 03/ 7/2013 Vatileaks: Things turned sour towards yesterday’s General Congregation, the third in the series of pre-Conclave meetings: “Discussions are still too general” Andrea Tornielli vatican city vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/inquiries-and-interviews/detail/articolo/22950/ In a speech given during yesterday’s General Congregation, a foreign cardinal asked for some information on two individuals who Read more [...]

[Where are the Vatican plumbers? Possibly in the role of the Vatican Gendarmerie (see comment below)] As conclave nears, tactics get more aggressive By Andrea Gagliarducci www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/as-conclave-nears-tactics-get-more-aggressive/ Rome, Italy, Mar 8, 2013 / (CNA/EWTN News).- The media silence of the cardinals resulted in an anonymous interview to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica in which a source claimed there is “a lobby” of leakers. That group is Read more [...]

Notre Dame Seniors Have Mixed Feelings on Cardinal Dolan as Commencement Speaker March 7, 2013 | By Tim Drake | www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2019/Notre-Dame-Seniors-Have-Mixed-Feelings-on-Cardinal-Dolan-as-Commencement-Speaker.aspx According to an article in The Observer, graduating seniors at the University of Notre Dame have mixed feelings about New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan delivering the 2013 Commencement address. While Read more [...]

[Maybe it should be called the "Queenipiac Poll"] QUINNIPIAC POLL ON GAY MARRIAGE March 8, 2013 www.catholicleague.org/quinnipiac-poll-on-gay-marriage/ Bill Donohue comments on a poll by Quinnipiac University that was released yesterday: The media are ecstatic: Catholics are pro-gay marriage. Indeed, Peter A. Brown, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, says, “Catholic voters are leading American voters toward support for same-sex marriage.” Read more [...]

[Is His Excellency a comsymp, because he is so impressed by what Líder Máximo Hugo was doing in Venezuela and by what the Commies did in his home state of Kerala in India?] Vatican diplomat ‘adored’ Chávez, saved his life during 2002 coup CWN – March 08, 2013 A Syro-Malabar prelate in India has recounted how he saved Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez’s life during a failed 2002 military coup. “Chávez pleaded with me to save him,” recalls Archbishop Kuriakose Bharanikulangara Read more [...]

[Daniel(s) in the lions' den?] US bishops, theologians to engage in dialogue on new evangelization and the university CWN – March 08, 2013 Three bishops who are members of the Committee on Doctrine of the United States Catholic Bishops will take part in a private dialogue with representatives of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Academy of Catholic Theology, College Theology Society, Black Catholic Theological Symposium, and the Academy of Read more [...]

Italian priest calls for gay Pope CWN – March 07, 2013 An outspoken Italian Catholic priest has called for the election of a homosexual Pope. “A homosexual Pope would be a magnificent thing,” Father Andrea Gallo said. Father Gallo has been prominent in defense of homosexuals and in other political causes in Genoa; he once joined a protest against drug laws by smoking marijuana in city hall. He charges that the “repression” of homosexual clerics has led the way to pedophilia. Additional Read more [...]

[Founded by Notre Dame's Holy Cross Fathers] Nun Censured by Vatican Speaks at Stonehill College March 7, 2013, at 3:58 PM | By Tim Drake | www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2018/Nun-Censured-by-Vatican-Speaks-at-Stonehill-College.aspx Despite being censured by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and asked to refrain from continuing to speak publicly on homosexuality, Sister Jeannine Gramick has continued speaking. Read more [...]

[Extra alveosphaeristerium nulla salus] Catholic Universities See True Path To Salvation: Basketball DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St. John’s, Seton Hall and Villanova universities have decided to leave the Big East Conference and pursue a new basketball framework. by Frank Deford March 06, 2013 www.npr.org/2013/03/06/173533196/catholic-universities-see-true-path-to-salvation-basketball I’ve always felt it’s no coincidence that some basketball powerhouses — let Read more [...]

[A Canadian counterpart to those US bishops who give thumbs down to the USCCCP's Campaign for Human Development] Canadian bishop again refuses funding to Development and Peace amidst abortion scandal by Patrick B. Craine www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-bishop-again-denies-funding-to-development-and-peace-amidst-aborti PEMBROKE, Ontario, March 7, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Canadian bishop is committed to withholding all funding from the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development Read more [...]

[Three who should not be considered for contention] ‘Dark horse’ cardinals: their positions on life and family and faith issues – Part I by Hilary White, Rome Correspondent www.lifesitenews.com/news/dark-horse-cardinals-their-positions-on-life-and-family-and-faith-issues-pa ROME, March 2, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – On the evening of October 16, 1978, thousands of people filled the Piazza San Pietro waiting to hear the name of their new pope. But when it came, there was reportedly Read more [...]

[Their rationalization and that of their German counterparts: As many of holes as a hunk of Swiss cheese and a smell like that of German limburger] Swiss bishops approve morning-after pill in cases of rape by John Jalsevac www.lifesitenews.com/news/swiss-bishops-approve-morning-after-pill-in-cases-of-rape March 7, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Days after the German bishops approved the use of the morning-after pill in cases of rape, the Swiss bishops have followed their lead. Read more [...]

[The bishops' point-man on pro-life issues speaks] Conscience legislation facing major setback in US Congress? CWN – March 07, 2013 The Health Care Conscience Rights Act, which was introduced in the US House of Representatives with enthusiastic support from the US bishops’ conference, faces bleak prospects of approval, after a key House committee indicated that the bill could not become part of a larger spending bill. Richard Doerflinger, a staff member of the US bishops’ pro-life Read more [...]

Vatican diplomat challenges UN to do more to protect religious freedom CWN – March 07, 2013 Reacting to the publication of an annual United Nations report on religious freedom, a leading Holy See diplomat said that “effective protection of the human rights of persons belonging to religious minorities is lacking or inadequately addressed even in the UN and international systems.” Although the UN report “offers a realistic picture of today’s oppression of religious minorities,” Read more [...]

[In this case I support the Fundies over the Jebbies] [Jesuit] Gonzaga University LGBT Center Clashes with [Fundamentalist Protestant] Gospel Mission Over Camp Use March 7, 2013 | By Tim Drake | www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2015/Gonzaga-University-LGBT-Center-Clashes-with-Gospel-Mission-Over-Camp-Use.aspx The Gonzaga Bulletin reports that there’s been a clash of missions between Gonzaga University’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Read more [...]

[If so, there would be only a denuclearized (and possibly a non-existent) South Korea] South Korean archbishop calls for denuclearization CWN – March 07, 2013 As North Korea threatens a nuclear attack against the United States and South Korea inaugurates a new president, Archbishop Andrew Yeom Soo-jung of Seoul has called for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. “The Church proposes to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, and a peaceful way to achieve this goal is necessary,” Read more [...]

["A day late and a dollar short"; also, as previously reported on AQ, the Republicans already capitulated to the Democrats' "expanded" version] USCCB opposes ‘sexual orientation,’ ‘gender identity’ in domestic violence legislation CWN – March 07, 2013 The heads of four committees and one subcommittee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have announced that they “cannot support” the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, which has passed the House Read more [...]

Hugo Chavez died ‘in the bosom of the Church’ Caracas, Venezuela, Mar 6, 2013 / www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/hugo-chavez-died-in-the-bosom-of-the-church (CNA).- A reliable source in Venezuela has revealed to CNA that President Hugo Chavez died “in bosom of the Church” and received spiritual direction and the sacraments in his last days. In announcing Chavez’s death to the nation on March 5, Vice President Nicolas Maduro said the Venezuelan leader died “clinging to Christ.” Read more [...]

Is this an endorsement or a condemnation? By Phil Lawler | March 06, 2013 www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=525 A Boston Globe editorial has endorsed that city’s archbishop, Cardinal Sean O’Malley, as the best candidate for the papacy. The Globe, a paper with a long history of anti-Catholicism, reasons that Cardinal O’Malley would be a good leader for the universal Church because, among other qualities, he is not as “forceful” as other prelates. Read more [...]

[Soon they will have something else in common] Cardinal Dolan chosen as Notre Dame commencement speaker CWN – March 06, 2013 The University of Notre Dame has announced that its commencement speaker this year will be Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, the president of the US bishops’ conference. The choice of Cardinal Dolan—who will also receive an honorary doctorate—contrasts sharply with the university’s controversial decision to honor President Barack Obama at commencement Read more [...]

Alumni Group Hopes to Strengthen Catholic Identity at [Jesuit] Loyola Marymount University March 4, 2013 | By Tim Drake | www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/1999/Alumni-Group-Hopes-to-Strengthen-Catholic-Identity-at-Loyola-Marymount-University.aspx In response to the weakening of Catholic identity at Los Angeles’ Loyola Marymount University, an alumni group has formed to strengthen the school’s commitment to the Catholic faith. Read more [...]

[Someone gagged the American Cardinals so that they would not suffer from hoof-in-mouth disease] Well, that was awfully embarrassing… Posted by New Catholic at 3/06/2013 rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/03/well-that-was-awfully-embarrassing.html The USCCCP’s Sister Spokesnun Sister Mary Ann Walsh, Director of Media Relations of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, had organized daily press conferences with two American Cardinals each day in the Pontifical North Read more [...]

[Jesuit University] Religious Studies Professor Paints Pope’s Tenure as “Troubled” March 6, 2013 | By Tim Drake | www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2008/Religious-Studies-Professor-Paints-Popes-Tenure-as-Troubled.aspx Writing for Religion Dispatches on “Benedict’s Painful Legacy,” Elizabeth Drescher, who teaches in Religious Studies and the graduate program in Pastoral Ministry at Santa Clara University, uses the opportunity Read more [...]

University of Notre Dame Shuts Down the Fund to Protect Human Life March 5, 2013 | By Tim Drake | www.cardinalnewmansociety.org/CatholicEducationDaily/DetailsPage/tabid/102/ArticleID/2007/University-of-Notre-Dame-Shuts-Down-the-Fund-to-Protect-Human-Life.aspx Both The Irish Rover and The Sycamore Trust are reporting that the University of Notre Dame has shut down the four-year-old Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life. The decision appears to have been made so that direction of Read more [...]

Scott K. Ginsburg, renowned seller of exotic cars, sues Georgetown University to retrieve $7.5 million in donations By Robert Wilonsky March 5, 2013 thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/03/scott-k-ginsburg-renowned-seller-of-exotic-cars-sues-georgetown-university-to-retrive-7-5-million-in-donations.html/ Scott K. Ginsburg made most of his many millions in the late 1990s, when he and Tom Hicks (briefly) partnered in the radio business and sold their offspring to Clear Channel for upwards Read more [...]

Poll of U.S. Catholics shows deep disconnect with their bishops, Vatican Large numbers in favor of gay marriage, end of celibacy and women priests By JAMES O’SHEA March 6, 2013 www.irishcentral.com/news/Poll-of-US-Catholics-shows-deep-disconnect-with-their-bishops-Vatican-195529061.html Seven out of ten Catholics in the U.S. believe the next pope should let priests marry, allow women to become priests, and allow birth control. Nine out of ten want the next pope to approve the Read more [...]

[They're at it again!] [USCCCP] CCHD grants $800,000 to promote immigration “reform” [and pro-aborts] CWN – March 06, 2013 Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento, California, chairman of the US bishops’ subcommittee on the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), has announced that the anti-poverty agency has granted $800,000 to promote immigration reform. Grant recipients include Catholic Legal Immigration Network, [the pro-abort] PICO National Network, and the US bishops’ own Read more [...]

HHS mandate: court rules against Catholic business owners CWN – March 06, 2013 A US district judge in the District of Columbia has refused to halt the implementation of the HHS mandate against Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics, two businesses owned by Francis and Philip Gilardi. The brothers do not wish to provide health insurance that covers contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs, and have excluded such coverage from their company insurance policies for the Read more [...]

US cardinal expects briefing on secret ‘Vatileaks’ report CWN – March 05, 2013 Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley has said that he is confident the College of Cardinals will be briefed on a secret investigation into the “Vatileaks” scandal before they meet in conclave to select the next Roman Pontiff. Before leaving office Pope Benedict XVI decided that a report prepared by three cardinals, and submitted to him in confidence, would remain secret, and made available only to the Read more [...]

The Bitter Pill: UK’s Tablet calls for Church to abandon fight against ‘gay marriage’ Hilary White www.lifesitenews.com/news/the-bitter-pill-uks-tablet-calls-for-church-to-abandon-fight-against-gay-ma ROME, March 5, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Church in Britain, and presumably abroad, must abandon its fight against “gay marriage” and “make peace with the gay world and move on.” So says The Tablet, Britain’s “international Catholic weekly” magazine, sold Read more [...]

Pro-life groups call for reform of Canadian Bishops’ Development and Peace Patrick B. Craine www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-life-groups-call-for-reform-of-canadian-bishops-development-and-peace MONTREAL, March 5, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A contingent of pro-life organizations from the U.S. and Canada have joined LifeSiteNews.com in calling for a reform of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace ahead of the agency’s national collection on March 17th. The Read more [...]

Pro-abortion politician on board of Catholic high school Johanna Dasteel Ben Johnson supplied additional research for this article. www.lifesitenews.com/news/pro-abortion-politician-on-board-of-catholic-high-school LOS ANGELES, CA, March 5, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – A pro-abortion California politician is serving on the board of advisors for a Catholic high school in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Assemblywoman Holly Mitchell is on the board of advisors of Verbum Dei High School, Read more [...]

[The homo-mafia strikes again] Most Holy Redeemer Parishioners Force Removal of Picture of Pope-Emeritus Benedict Posted by Fr. John Malloy, SDB Posted by Gibbons J. Cooney 3/4/13 johnmalloysdb.blogspot.com/2013/03/mhr-parishioners-force-removal-of.html From Fr. Brian Costello’s pastor’s message in the Most Holy Redeemer parish bulletin of March 3, 2013: Two weeks ago, after Pope Benedict XVI had announced to the world that he would be resigning the office of Peter as of February Read more [...]

New [Modernistic-style] Vatican Chapel Designed By Pittsburgh Architect March 4, 2013 Reporting Stacy Smith pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/03/04/new-vatican-chapel-designed-by-pittsburgh-architect/ PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The College of Cardinals met Monday, but they have yet to decide when they will begin the conclave to elect a new pope. Once the conclave begins, the 115 cardinals eligible to vote for a new pope will be sequestered inside the Vatican. And every morning Read more [...]

[National Review embraces sodomy] National Review: CPAC organizers should ‘embrace’ pro-gay ‘marriage’ group by Ben Johnson www.lifesitenews.com/news/national-review-cpac-organizers-should-embrace-pro-gay-marriage-group WASHINGTON, D.C., March 4, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Multiple writers at National Review have criticized CPAC’s decision to exclude GOProud from its annual conservative political gathering in Washington, D.C. Instead of engaging in “a knee-jerk and insecure Read more [...]