BY ELIAS GROLL
If a report on Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica is to be believed, Pope Benedict XVI’s recent decision to resign just got a whole lot more interesting. The paper claims that around the
A Must Read…
Allow me to call you attention to another brilliant commentary posted over at Enlightened Catholicism:
Why I Doubt The Next Pope Will Come From Africa.
MPs vote 400 to 175 to pass same-sex marriage bill
by Scott Roberts
MPs have voted 400 to 175 in supporting the government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill – a majority of 225 votes – following an afternoon of heated debate in the House of Commons.
About 140 Conservative MPs
The Magdalene Laundries explained
What were the Magdalene Laundries?
Institutions where women were sent if they were regarded as “fallen women”.
Who was sent there?
The women who were committed to these homes included women who conceived out of wed lock, wards of state
Santa Barbara Bishop Apologizes In Catholic Church Cover Up
File under: When an apology is not an apology. Jesus, these men simply can’t stop the prevarication. They couldn’t take responsibility for their actions if their life depended on it. Shame, shame, shame!
By Liberty Zabala
Dark days fall upon
Illinois Bishop Who Put “Handcuffs & Ball-Gag Priest” On Leave Testified Against Same-Sex Marriage Yesterday
File under “Bad Timing!” Personal note to Bishop Tom; you ain’t never gonna get your red hat this way, darlin’!
Yesterday Diocese of Springfield Bishop Thomas Paprocki testified against same-sex marriage before the Illinois state Senate. His testimony came just
Archbishop Vincent Nichols stops Soho gay Catholic Mass
Special Masses for gay Catholics at a London church are to be scrapped, the Archbishop of Westminster has said.
Archbishop Vincent Nichols said Masses at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Warwick Street, Soho, would end.
He said
Gay marriage vs. natural law
Ya can’t help but feel a little sorry for old Francis. He’s been without for so long, he’s forgotten some of the fundamentals of the old in and out. Besides, what about all those heterosexual couples who are married, but
Website helps Dutch Catholics “de-baptize” over gay marriage
Thousands of Dutch Catholics are researching how they can leave the church in protest at its opposition to gay marriage, according to the creator of a website aimed at helping them find the information.
Tom Roes, whose website allows people
Pope attacks gay marriage…AGAIN!
File under “Doubling Down — In The Vain Hope That The Tide of History Will Turn Back The Clock.”
Benedict promoted traditional marriage in his annual ‘State of the Church’ speech at the Vatican and added posts lauding truth, faith