HUMANISTS have launched a legal challenge to give pupils the right to opt out of religious observance in Scottish schools. The Humanist Society Scotland (HSS) is to seek a judicial review at the Court of Session in Edinburgh after the Scottish Government rejected calls for a change to the current rules which permit only parents...
The article below is a lengthy, detailed study of Catholic Moral Principles Concerning the Reading of Literature by Fr Stephen DeLallo SSPX (Revised: Sept. 8, 2016) Comments invited. It would be especially interesting to hear from priests, parents and teachers on this crucially important subject... Introduction: The Catholic Moral Principles outlined below can...
Award-winning American author Dan Graham’s article Words That Count first appeared in our newsletter, Issue No. 51, September, 2008....Dan’s original article was easily one of the most popular we’ve ever published, as was the updated version published in the newsletter in 2010. In recent weeks I've been approached for copies of it (available on...
Joseph Sarto was born in Riese in Venetia on Jun 2nd, 1835. He was successively curate, parish priest, Bishop of Mantua, patriarch of Venice. He was elected Pope on August 4, 1903. As chief pastor of the Church he realised to the full the value of the liturgy as the prayer of the Church...
RICHMOND, Virginia, August 29, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — Roughly a dozen pro-life activists protested Sunday outside of pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Sen. Tim Kaine’s Catholic parish: Catholics protest at Tim Kaine’s parish: If priest won’t ‘instruct parishioners’ on Church teaching, we will “Sen. Kaine has failed in his duty as a Catholic public servant...
Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict have expressed appreciation for the friendship that has grown between them on the occasion of the publication of Elio Guerriero's biography of Pope Benedict XVI. Both popes clearly value their friendship for the support and encouragement that it brings to them both. Pope Benedict XVI, right, hugs Pope Francis in St....
Comment: The above film reveals the theory of Catholic education in action. It is happening now, in our time, so it gives the lie to the claims that this kind of Catholic education is no longer possible in a secular society. Where, on this earth, is there a more secular society than in the USA?...
“Faith should be allowed to play a role in public life” writes newly-appointed Director of the Scottish Catholic Parliamentary Office. Writing in today's Scotsman (Thursday 4 August) Anthony Horan counters claims that society is becoming less religious simply because increasing numbers of people no longer tick a “church” box on census forms suggesting this doesn’t mean they...
Embryo - 3 days - click on image for information about fetal development The Marie Stopes abortion industry is in trouble after a surprise inspection by the Care Quality Commission Read more here This news - reported in the broadcasting and print media days ago, makes the article below, published in 2015, all the more interesting... 7...
August 19, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – In his book Magisterial Authority, Fr. Chad Ripperger, PhD, says “the Church will not climb out of this tumultuous period” without reversing the “practice since the Second Vatican Council onward not to police the doctrinal integrity” among bishops, priests and theologians. The crucial observation comes at the end of...
