Museum for Catholic Statues. Lou McClung is a make-up artist from Cleveland, Ohio. For years, he has been collecting and restoring old statues which otherwise would have decayed or been dumped. Such is his love of preserving what he sees as important pieces of history, that he set up the Museum of Divine Statues in his home city.
A Eucharistic miracle in Argentina and what scientists say about it. Why should you stay Catholic and ask other Christians to be one? Simple. In the Catholic Church, we have Jesus in the Eucharist!
Alexamarie we ALL have a duty to defend the unborn child, who is totally defenceless “The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil". Fulton Sheen The Queen may not have been able to stop the law, but she should have abdicated which as a huge Public figure would have had a great impact publicly and shown a great moral truth- the genocide of her nation
Paul Mankowski on sentimental moralism: We're told that a goldfish has a memory so brief that at the conclusion of each circuit of its bowl it forgets everything it knew at the beginning. I think of liberals as moral goldfish, blissfully free of moral memory, who swim about in a ceaselessly changing bath of sentimentalisms. They are often full of moral indignation, but this indignation doesn't derive from moral principles -- from the kind of reasoning that can tell you that this embryo is an intact human being even though it doesn't look like one -- rather their resentments are triggered by emotionally freighted images they take in from the stream of ephemeral pop culture: music, films, videos, and especially television. Historical precedent and philosophical consistency are simply not important. Hence the very same persons who blame the bystanders of 1940 for not taking more risks to derail the Holocaust often oppose (and abusively oppose) those who blockade abortion clinics, even though …More
By Diogenes (articles ) | Aug 06, 2007 Busted Halo's Bill McGarvey interviews Melinda Henneberger, who, as is her wont, pin-balls all over the theological map as her feelings flip her. I found the following question put by McGarvey particularly discouraging. Despite their rhetoric, I often wonder whether some Republican strategists' greatest fear is that Roe v. Wade gets overturned? It would take away an enormous red herring that they get to throw out to distract people every election. In the 1940s, the Nazis decreed that a disfavored class of human beings were not fully "persons" and turned eleven million of them into ash -- with the passive consent of the enlightened. In the 1970s, our Supreme Court decreed that a disfavored class of human beings were not fully "persons," and in the meantime we have turned more than 40 million of them into surgical waste -- with the passive consent of the enlightened. Those committed to overturning Roe v. Wade see themselves as combatting the same …
Pittsburgh diocese, "Our Lady of the Roller Coaster" Published by: Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, 1 June 2018. Text on facebook: "I've been praying to Our Lady of the Roller Coaster" Fr. Mike Ackerman and Fr. Mike Zavage ride the Phantom's Revenge at Kennywood Park. Join them for Catholic day at Kennywood on July 23! Get your tickets at pghpriest.com.
Will an intervention from the Vatican be necessary to clarify or will the German bishops have to find an agreement? Pope Francis: This is not a novelty because in the Code of Canon Law, what the German bishops were talking about is foreseen: communion in special cases. And, they were looking at the problem of mixed marriages, no? If it is possible or it isn’t possible. And the Code says that the bishop of the particular Church - this word is important, “particular,” if it is of a diocese - must read that. It’s in his hands. This is in the Code. The German bishops, because they had seen that it wasn’t clear... also some priests did things who weren’t in agreement with the bishop, have wished to study this theme and have made this study that I don’t want to exaggerate, but it was a study of more than a year, and more… it’s more than a year… well done… and the study was restrictive. What the bishops wanted is to say clearly what is in the Code. And, I read it and said: this is a …More
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the firing of Roseanne Barr from ABC-TV: Roseanne Barr has been making vile comments for years, so why—all of a sudden—has she crossed the line? In 1990, when she grabbed her crotch, spit on the ground, and gave a screeching rendition of our national anthem at a baseball game, the cultural elites who now hate her were fine with her stunt. It’s not America bashing they despise—it’s racism. It sure isn’t anti-Catholicism that bothers them, either. Now that the media are rediscovering some of Barr’s past bigoted statements, they seem to be unaware of, or just don’t care about, her anti-Catholic bigotry. In 2012, Barr said that Catholic employers should include psychiatric coverage for the children of women workers because the kids “might get molested by Catholic priests.” Two years earlier she said, “I am starting to think that any parent who takes their kids to Catholic churches from now on should lose custody. Taking your kids where …More
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2018 (www.lifesitenews.com) – The incoming head of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life efforts defended denying Communion to pro-abortion politicians, saying they need to be held to “accountability.” Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann said this to EWTN before the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. He explained that when Kathleen Sebelius – later one of the architects of the HHS contraception mandate – was the governor of Kansas, she persistently supported abortion while claiming to be Catholic. Naumann said he had a “long dialogue” with Sebelius about this before banning her from Communion, but ultimately, “I had no alternative but to take that rather drastic step.” Canon 915 of the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law says that those “obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” Many Catholic bishops ignore canon 915 and distribute Holy Communion, which the Church teaches is the literal body, blood, soul, and divinity …
Archbishop Gänswein, in a soutane with purple sash, indifferently flipped pages of designer frocks until he lingered on a luxurious Madame Grès dress inspired by a Franciscan habit. “They all love that,” Mr. Bolton said of the dress.
A Raccoon at Mass || ViralHog. Occurred on May 2, 2018 / University of San Diego, California, USA "Early on during Mass, I had heard people laughing and chattering and eventually my friend pointed out to me the raccoon on the wall climbing up the displays. The raccoon was so still and relaxed that most people didn't notice, it wasn't until the homily that the racoon started to make it's way down. The entire time students were laughing and pointing. The priest, Fr. Robert, turned around to the wall to see all the commotion. He laughed along and finished his homily saying, 'I don't know how much of the homily you guys heard.' The raccoon eventually made its way down the sanctuary and through the isle and someone opened up a door for it. There are a lot of raccoons on campus and they're very comfortable with humans. This is what it means when we say all are welcome to mass!" Watch ViralHog videos every day! Subscribe to us on YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC3339WgBDKIcxT… Like us on …More