WFP: Tigray aid operations ‘about to grind to a halt’
With food, fuel and funding at an all-time low, the United Nations World Food Programme warns that millions in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region will starve. Read all
Hard-Won Wisdom
Hard-Won Wisdom By Clifford Thompson January 15, 2022 A passage in Walt Whitman’s seminal 1855 work, Leaves of Grass, reads, “And do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not / something else, / And the mocking bird in the swamp never studied the / gamut, yet trills pretty well to me.” Another reads, […]
Fr. Mitch Pacwa the hunting Jesuit : Part 2
Part 2 of our interview with EWTN’s very own Fr. Mitch Pacwa! He joins us in the upper room as we discuss hunting, history, the Jesuit Society, and so much more. Website: www.romeboys.org
Sat 15 Jan – CHICAGOLAND ALERT: Rosary Rally – SaveTheLatinMass.ORG
I received this note: CHICAGO ROSARY RALLY Holy Name Cathedral 11:30 AM SATURDAY JANUARY 15TH Please help get this out to people in the Chicago area. These rallies are building resistance to Cupich’s crackdown. You can bet all the bishops … Read More →
Pro-life congressional leaders praise pledge to oppose federal abortion funding
The US Capitol / Nicholas Haro/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Jan 15, 2022 / 06:00 am (CNA). One hundred and eighty one members of the House of Representatives signed a letter praising the pro-life leadership of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, as well as promising to vote against any appropriations bill […]
Pope Francis is still a long way from reforming Roman Curia culture
A recent high-level personnel move highlights how difficult it is to change the ethos of a Vatican bureaucracy dating back to the 1580s
Pope to Theatines: persevere in Gospel witness and works of mercy
Pope Francis meets with members the Order of Clerics Regular (Theatines) concluding their General Chapter and encourages them to go forward with openness to the Spirit, firmly rooted in prayer, adoration, common life, fraternal charity, poverty and service to the poor. Read all
Myanmar bishops urge fighting parties to allow humanitarian relief
Meeting in Yangon for their General Assembly, bishops in Myanmar express deep concern over the the escalation of fighting between the Tatmadaw and rebel forces and urge all parties to facilitate access to humanitarian relief . Read all
PROGRESSIVE POSTER CHILD CDL. CUPICH PRESIDES OVER PAGAN CHINESE CEREMONY
Before celebrating Mass in the gymnasium of Catholic high school in Mundelein, Illinois on January 7, 2020, Cardinal Cupich, dressed in a red miter and chasuble, holding his episcopal crosier and surrounded by several priests adorned in this way. Then he waited for a Chinese lion-shaped puppet to dance in the gymnasium and approach them. […]
Paradise Lost in a Nutshell
Although almost all the great writers prior to the mid-seventeenth century had been Catholic in either sympathy or practice, John Milton (1608-74) took up the Protestant cause with revolutionary zeal. Following the victory of Cromwell’s Puritan army in the English Civil War, he supported and defended the execution of King Charles I. Then, in 1660, […]