Pope Benedict on Today’s Gospel

From Asia News Italy:
“The rich man,” the Pope said, “represents the unfair use of wealth for unbridled and selfish luxury by people who only think about their own satisfaction unconcerned by the beggar standing at their door. By contrast, the poor represents those only God takes care; unlike the rich man, the poor man has [...]

Pope Benedict on the Angels

Brilliant! From Asia News Italy:
In his moving homily the pope recalled that in the early Church – and in Revelations – bishops are referred to as “angels”.  Just as angles, explained the pope, bishops must lead humanity to God; they must knock on the door to their hearts to announce Christ; they must heal the [...]

Catholic Church Vandalized in Texas

From the Courier-Gazette:
Vandals Wednesday or early Thursday defaced the west side of St. Michael’s The Archangel Church on Paula Road by painting offensive rhetoric and symbols on the Sanctuary doors, walls and church parking lot.
In black spray paint phrases such as “God touched me here” with a caricature pointing to its groin area and “666″ [...]

New Bishop for Crookston, MN

Monsignor Michael J. Hoeppner

Students Grow Sick at Mass: “Something was in the air”

St. Hugo’s in Michigan, from the Detroit Free Press:
Police and hazardous materials experts have finished sweeping St. Hugo of the Hills church and school in Bloomfield Hills and have ruled out carbon monoxide as a possible cause of the sickness that sent at least three students to the hospital Wednesday morning and forced the evacuation [...]

“This is why you pay Catholic tax dollars”

I have to admit ignorance on this, do Canadians pay religious tax dollars? This story is about an attempt to get the Catholic school board to ban a book that was approved for use in the district by the family life office (which I’m guessing didn’t carefully read the book it approved). From The National:
The [...]

Fr. Rutler tells Hitchens “a Catholic or a madman”

An exchange between Fr. George Rutler and Christopher Hitchens that took place back in May, (hat tip to the Curt Jester), during the question and answer session, first from Poe:
FATHER RUTLER: I have met saints. You cannot explain the existence of saints without God. I was nine years chaplain with Mother Teresa [inaudible]. You have called [...]

The Pope: A City of Equality

From his weekly catechesis on St. John Chrysostom (Asia News Italy):
The Christian idea of the primacy of the person, which makes all men equal and which has as a direct consequence solidarity, as the foundation of the “city”, instead of the concept of the primacy of the “polis”, in which the individual is subordinate to [...]

Time Irresponsible for Running JPII Euthanasia Article

From Father Jonathan Morris:

Time Magazine has published a story that suggests John Paul II may have been euthanized by his doctors at his own request.
The article is blatantly irresponsible, for the reasons I will explain below. But of even greater journalistic concern are the author’s false statements about what the Catholic Church teaches regarding end-of-life [...]

Pastor Runs Off Film Crew After “Cheesus Crust” Incident

They were filming scenes of “Bachelor 2″ in his church (my guess is that there probably was a bit more imprudence in letting them use a church for a movie with that name), from the Boston Herald:
The cheesed-off pastor of St. Leonard’s Church in the North End threw the cast and crew of the Dane [...]

Kerry’s Catholic U. Talk Cancelled

Cites ”scheduling conflict”… 
From Lifesite:
LifeSiteNews.com reported last week that Catholic University of America’s (CUA) newspaper ‘The Tower’ had revealed that the College Democrats at CUA had received the necessary permission from the administration and subsequently invited pro-abortion Senator Kerry to lecture at the University.
In its current issue released just today, The Tower newspaper is now reporting that [...]

Hilary Clinton and God

A new book looks at Hilary Clinton and her religious beliefs, from Warren Throckmorton:
- How Bill Clinton’s pro-life pastor in Arkansas helped him come to a pro-choice position on abortion, and how the abortion issue has haunted both of Clintons as pro-choice Christians, and caused a permanent separation between them and pro-life Christians. There is [...]

Pope John Paul II Relic Holy Card

The Rome Archdiocese is promoting the cause of Pope John Paul II. Among other things you do at this site is to request a “relic” holy card by email. You can also submit prayer requests. You can also  subscribe to the magazine Totus Tuus that details the cause, (somehow I did this early on and [...]

Pope Gives Shoes to Minneapolis Charity

Not his shoes, but from an Italian shoemaker who gave them to the pope to be given to the poor. From WKBT:
Some homeless Minneapolis residents are walking in the Pope’s shoes.
That’s after two big boxes from Rome arrived at Sharing and Caring Hands, a homeless mission in downtown Minneapolis. Recently, the rector of the Cathedral [...]

In the “Is she still alive?” Department

There are a lot of folks out there, born in the last 30 years, who I am sure don’t even know who she is, but  Joni Mitchell Attacks Catholic Church:

 Joni Mitchell is back after nine years, and she’s on the attack. In the title track to her new album, “Shine,” Mitchell takes a nice swipe [...]