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Good Counsel Homes, the wonderful ministry for pregnant moms and their babies, needs some financial help.

From a reader: My husband and I have just spent ten days in Beijing. A few months ago I blegged for advice from your readers about Mass attendance in mainland China, and following a suggestion there, we asked our pastor to dispense us from the Sunday obligation. Thank you for your help! As things turned…

Blogger Kevin Jones has the details on his parish’s battle.

Well, our internet puzted out as of the last post – what was that, Wednesday? So I’m sitting here at the dreaded Starbucks, there being no Panera Bread anywhere on Anastasia Island – trying to clear 100+ emails before Michael and children get back from some mystery trip. I will post a few links I…

Moving on to the Apostle John: A model and lesson of “frankness in confessing one’s faith”, setting it above “all costs or human interests”, John was the apostle at the heart of the reflection of Benedict XVI to around 20,000 people who came for the general audience. At the end, he called for greater respect…

Croatian monastery gets ship: A World War II Nazi ship has been donated to a Roman Catholic monastery by the Croatian government to be turned into a sailing church. According to reports, the landing ship DTM-219 was used by Nazi Germany to transport tanks and infantry and was given to communist Yugoslavia after 1945 as…

A Times (UK) article on the York Mystery Plays, about to be performed again: York was holding such performances as early as 1376. Usually they were on the feast of Corpus Christi, which falls on the first Thursday after Trinity between May 23 and June 24. The 12 plays presented this year are based on…

…in Britain. Ruth Gledhill reports in the Times: THE Roman Catholic Church in Britain is facing its greatest threat since the Reformation, according to research. Over three decades Mass attendance has slumped by 40 per cent, baptisms by 50 per cent, Catholic marriages by 60 per cent and confirmations by 60 per cent. The 260-page…

Irish woman fights husband for embryos: “The rightful place for those three embryos is back with their mother to give them the right to life,” she said. Giving evidence at the second day of the hearing the childcare worker admitted they had never properly discussed what would be done with the embryos when they separated…

To the World Meeting of Families, which began July 1 in Valencia, Spain. The Pope will be there this weekend, July 8 and 9. Valencia, is of course the site of the terrible train accident which claimed over 40 lives on Monday: The Pope sent a telegram message to the Archbishop of Valencia: "As I…
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