A JOKE may be a small thing, but it is the most reliable indicator of liberty. There are no jokes in Islam, Ayatollah Khomeini sternly warned. Well, there are fewer jokes outside Islam now too. In virtually every aspect of our lives, areas which should be ripe for ridicule are increasingly fenced off...
From Gloria TV... Francis is destroying the foundations of faith and morals, writes Austrian philosopher Josef Seifert, who currently teaches at Munich University, in an Open Letter to the Cardinals sent on 2 May (English text below). Seifert does not understand how all the cardinals except the Dubia cardinals simply remain silent on the problem of...
From Raymond Ibrahim According to a recent report, The Vatican has abrogated three papal bulls, claiming that the documents are offensive to indigenous peoples and “have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith.” The bulls Dum Diversas (1452), Romanus Pontifex (1455) and Inter Caetera (1493) contain the basis for the “doctrine of discovery,” which “is not part of the teaching of the Catholic...
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Editor writes... Out for lunch with some family members a few days ago, I stopped for a moment to take a look at some objects in a shop window, horrified to spot a crucifix with a skeleton pinned to it instead of an image of the Sacred Body of Our Lord, selling for a cool...
From New Liturgical Movement... In a recent episode of “Word on Fire,” Bishop Barron responds to Ross Douthat’s two NYT pieces on Vatican II and its failure, by making two arguments: Argument #1: To blame the collapse of Catholicism in the West on Vatican II is a “post hoc propter hoc” fallacy. [i.e. "after this, because of...
Christians now a minority in England and Wales - The News... By AFP November 30, 2022 LONDON, United Kingdom: Fewer than half of people in England and Wales identify as Christian, according to census data released on Tuesday, underlining a landmark shift towards secularism in multicultural Britain. The findings from the 10-yearly census, carried out in 2021,...
From Yorkshire Live... A Sheffield cinema has confirmed it will not show The Lady of Heaven after a protest was held outside its doors over planned screenings. A large group of protesters assembled outside of Cineworld Sheffield ahead of a screening of The Lady of Heaven on Sunday. Demonstrations have been held across the country in response to...
To mark the Feast of St Francis of Assisi today , 4 October - from Catholic World Report... Debunking the Myth of St. Francis as a Modern Ecumenist... [When he met the Sultan], Francis “skipped over the question about messages from the leaders of the Crusade and got immediately to the point. He was an ambassador...
Christianity exhorts its adherents to be charitable, but it is really charitable to affirm people in a belief system that tells them that hatred, contempt, and violence are blessed by the deity? The question is pertinent because recently in Nigeria and France, Catholic bishops have used the money donated by their own Catholic people to build...
