Category: Catholic

Cardinal George Pell: A Lifetime of Achievements

Commentary Given that permanent European settlement in Australia dates back just some 235 years, this country has had more than its fair share of extraordinary Catholics. Of course, we have St Mary of the Cross, better known as Mary MacKillop. As far as churchmen go, three giants spring to mind: the English Benedictine, Bede Polding,…


Exiting Pennsylvania Governor Wants Lawmakers to Increase Statute of Limitations for Victims of Child Sex Abuse

Exiting Pennsylvania Democrat Gov. Tom Wolf was suddenly moved, Friday, to call for a special session of the General Assembly—House and Senate—for Monday, Jan. 9, to propose a constitutional amendment to retroactively extend the timeline for victims of childhood sexual abuse to file civil actions. Wolf has had almost two years to work with the…


Catholic Bishop Reacts to Hillary Clinton Linking US Pro-Life Abortion Laws to Soldiers Raping Women in Ukraine, Iran

A Catholic Bishop in Texas has criticized comments made by former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Dec. 2 in which she lumped abortion rights in the United States to soldiers raping women in Iran, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. Clinton made the comments to PBS while she was attending the Women’s Voice Summit at the Clinton Presidential…


Catholic Bishop Reacts to Hillary Clinton Lumping US Anti-Abortion Laws With Soldiers Raping Women in Ukraine, Iran

A Catholic Bishop in Texas has criticized comments made by former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Dec. 2 in which she lumped abortion rights in the United States along with soldiers raping women in Iran, Afghanistan, and Ukraine. Clinton made the comments to PBS while she was attending the Women’s Voice Summit at the Clinton…


Against Communism and Liberalism, Christian Farmer Seeks to Glorify God Through Care of Land

It’s late October in Sharon, New York. The hills are painted red, orange, and yellow. Mist hangs in the earth-scented air, far below the migrating birds. “The retreat of bugs and peepers creates a pensive silence this time of year,” said traditionalist farmer and cidermaker Michael Thomas in an Oct. 27 text message–one of a…


UK Catholic Journalist Arrested Over Allegedly Sending Offensive Messages

A gender-critical Catholic mother and journalist has detailed her experience after police arrested her at her home on suspicion of malicious communications offences. Caroline Farrow, a journalist and mother-of-four, wrote a lengthy statement on Twitter about her arrest by Surrey Police at her home in southern England on Monday night while she was cooking a…


Cardinal Zen, 5 Others Stand Trial in Hong Kong Over Fund

HONG KONG—A 90-year-old Catholic cardinal and five others stood trial in Hong Kong on Monday for allegedly failing to register a now-defunct fund set up to assist people arrested in the mass anti-government protests in the city three years ago. Cardinal Joseph Zen, who is a retired bishop of Hong Kong, was first arrested in…


The Witch of Endor

Commentary If you have a theoretical interest in Christianity, you should watch a video of the Australian Catholic Church’s Plenary Mass on July 3. The service doesn’t actually begin for about seven minutes of the video (it was poorly edited), and the first 10 minutes thereafter are devoted to the Aboriginal “smoking ceremony,” a reported religious…


Catholic Priest Abducted in Nigeria, Diocese Says

KANO, Nigeria—A Nigerian Catholic priest was abducted from his rectory in the town of Zambina in the northern state of Kaduna in the early hours of Monday, the local Catholic diocese said on Monday. It said parishioners went to look for Father Emmanuel Silas after waiting in vain for him to conduct the morning mass….


Banned in San Francisco Over Abortion Advocacy, Nancy Pelosi Receives Communion in Papal Mass in Rome

Over a month after being denied communion in her home city of San Francisco, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has received communion on Wednesday at a Mass with Pope Francis in Rome. The California Democrat, who is visiting Rome on a family vacation, was spotted during the official livestream of Pope Francis’ Mass for the Solemnity…