Target Reports First Sales Decline in 6 Years After Boycotts Over ‘Pride Month’ Merchandise
Sean Wandzilak A nationwide boycott of Target ensued in June. Target has been promoting LGBTQ+-themed merchandise for more than a decade, but this year social-media posts about the gear led to widespread calls for boycotts across the country.
Muslim mobs attack churches in eastern Pakistan after accusing Christians of desecrating the Quran
Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage Wednesday over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the Quran, demolishing the man’s house, burning churches and damaging several other homes.
Remember where you came from, and remember who brought you here
A Reflection for Friday of the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by James T. Keane
Catholic Movie Club: ‘Frances Ha’ glimpses flawed people from God’s perspective
“Frances Ha” allows us to see Frances the way God might see her. We see her flaws, but we also see how hard she’s trying.
Don’t believe the headlines: a Nebraska teen didn’t go to jail for having an abortion
In the year following Dobbs, accurate reporting on any story even remotely tangential to abortion is not to be expected.
Catholic and Protestant Churches and Homes Torched
Church Militant’s Rome correspondent, Dr. Jules Gomes, discusses how Pope Francis fueled persecution of Christians in Islamic countries.
Two saints whose intercession Hawaii needs right now
“And have you seen what is happening in beautiful Maui now? It makes me sick to think of it.” These laments from an elderly religious sister — 91 years old, to be exact — were shared with me just a few days after wildfires devastated the historic town of Lahaina, on the island of Maui, […]
Toronto Catholic teacher tells new archbishop not to affirm Church teaching on sexuality in his class
In Catholic teacher Paolo De Buono’s classroom, which he calls the ‘Rainbow Room,’ the archbishop was told ‘you cannot say that there are only two genders, male or female, and that a person cannot in fact be a transgender person or a non-binary person. This includes not quoting paragraph 2333 of the Catechism of the […]
China: Regime Has Seminaries in Its Sights
By “sinicization” of religion, they mean the policy conceived at the highest level of the state apparatus to impose on Christianity the fundamental concepts of socialism as well as the autonomy of a Chinese Church supposed to depend only on the Communist Party. First implemented by party officials, it is now Chinese Catholic bishops who […]
Pakistan: Recurring False Accusations of Blasphemy Against Christians
Hundreds of Muslims have attacked a Christian community in eastern Pakistan, vandalizing several churches and a cemetery and burning dozens of homes, after accusing its members of desecrating a copy of the Koran. The mob raided three Presbyterian churches, a Catholic Church, a Full Gospel Assembly Church, and a Salvation Army church with sticks, stones […]