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A new website: On January 22, 1973, The United States Supreme Court legalized abortion on demand. The decision is called Roe vs. Wade. We call it Death Roe. About one fourth of our generation has already been wiped out, and the executions continue at the rate of over 3000 a day. If you were born…

For individuals and parishes, here on a webpage of mine – descriptions, etc. 2 books, one booklet, and one pamphlet. Or go directly to the source at the OSV page.

First via American Papist, and other places – a Tonight Show spoof commericial of our IPope. (And to Leno’s amused credulity that there’s such a thing as Vatican Radio – yeah, since 1931, with the groundwork begun in 1925. From an account of the first transmission written in 1966, the 35th anniversary: It is a…

John Allen says a document is being discussed – but there is no "official" document until the Pope approves of course. forthcoming Vatican document is set to state that use of condoms by a married couple, where one partner is infected with HIV/AIDS and the other is not, can be acceptable to prevent the transmission…

I went to Mass recently. Daily Mass. About 40 people there. A priest and 2 servers. The priest told no jokes, did not even say "good afternoon," obviously clear on what "Greeting" means in the rite. He spoke clearly, was restrained in his demeanor, keeping his own personality in check. He didn’t add a word…

Young Japanese Catholics: Shibata Yoko, 23, from Shizuoka parish, said she came with joy because since high school “no matter how much I thought about it [martyrdom], I could not understand it.” It all began when she read Endo Shusaku’s novel Silence, a story of the persecution of Christians in Japan. “I know that to…

Irish priest defiant: A PRIEST at the centre of a major row has defended his decision to organise a Mass involving three Catholic priests and a Church of Ireland minister on Easter Sunday. Augustinian friar Fr Iggy O’Donovan backed his decision to invite Church of Ireland minister Michael Graham to join him and other Catholic…

In today’s General Audience, Pope Benedict continues his catechesis on Church: “This permanent actualization of the active presence of the Lord Jesus in his people, by the work of the Holy Spirit and expressed in the Church through the apostolic ministry and brotherly communion, is what is meant, in a theological sense, by the term…

Creationists, of course: But the growth of AiG’s ministry doesn’t put a smile on the face of Mark Looy, vice president of outreach. "We’re ministering to many, many more people. We’re seeing a lot of people saved," Looy says. "But the other side of that coin is if the church had been doing its job…

There have been a few stories from up north – St. Thomas University – about faculty accompanying students on school-sponsored trips, accompanied, in turn, by people to whom they are not married. There was considerable squawking about this a few months back, and a policy decision was eventually reached Recently, St. Thomas was roiled by…
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