ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 00 – Final Saturday before Advent: “approach”
A series of 5 minute daily podcasts for Advent 2023. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · ADVENTCAzT 2023 – 00 – Final Saturday before Advent: “approach” Today, St. John Henry Newman connects the two ends of the year. Fr. Z rambles. Bookend … Read More →
Cosmo magazine features The Satanic Temple’s attempt to get around state laws with ‘ritual abortions’
While The Satanic Temple claims it’s not a religious organization, the ‘Satanic Abortion Ceremony’ is fraught with references to Satan’s rejection of God’s authority, desire for complete autonomy apart from God, and a mockery of Communion.’
Abortion clinics shut down in pro-life states, but mail-order abortions on the rise: new report
‘While the pro-life community has much to celebrate, the pro-death crowd continues to find methods of killing as many human beings as possible,’ Operation Rescue president Troy Newman said.
More than 130 abortion facilities have closed over the last two years across the US: report
Between 2022 and 2023, a total of 137 abortion clinics have stopped killing. Cities that had abortion mills in full operation are now abortion-free! When clinics close, babies are saved!
Witnesses Testify to Torture by Nicaraguan Dictatorship at Hearing on Imprisoned Catholic Bishop
Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. The Alliance Defending Freedom International (ADF), also joined in the push for the Nicaraguan dictatorship to release Bishop Álvarez this week.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a swing vote on abortion, dies
President Ronald Reagan and his Supreme Court justice nominee Sandra Day O’Connor on July 15, 1981. / Public Domain CNA Newsroom, Dec 1, 2023 / 17:40 pm (CNA). Former U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a swing vote who became a key part of the court’s longtime abortion-supporting majority, died Friday. She was 93 […]
Denver archbishop: Why I wrote a pastoral letter on marijuana
Marijuana leaves. / Credit: Armando Olivo Martín del Campo CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED ACI Prensa Staff, Dec 1, 2023 / 18:00 pm (CNA). In a Nov. 28 interview with “What We Need Now,” the Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver explained what motivated h… […]
Witnesses testify to torture by Nicaraguan dictatorship at hearing on imprisoned Catholic bishop
Bishop Rolando Álvarez of Matagalpa, Nicaragua. / Credit: Alliance Defending Freedom International Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Dec 1, 2023 / 18:20 pm (CNA). At a congressional hearing on Thursday, members of Congress and human rights activists u… […]
First Sunday of Advent: Expectation, Exhortation, Eucharist, Eternal Life
On the Readings for Sunday, December 3, 2017, the First Sunday of Advent […]
Science, microphysics, and the everyday world
Science, we’re often told, gives us a description of the world radically at odds with common sense. Physicist Arthur Eddington’s famous “two tables” example illustrates the theme. There is, on the one hand, the table […]