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  1. Zoii

    Convicted Catholic Archbishop sentenced

    Today Catholic Archbishop Phillip Wilson received a twelve-month sentence for the deliberate cover-up of child sex abuse of paedophile priests. Archbishop was found guilty of concealing the crimes of several paedophile priests including notorious paedophile Father Jim Fletcher. Archbishop Wilson...
  2. Dropout_Theologian

    I went to a Catholic Confessional today

    So in my quest to un-mess everything from my childhood and (God help my) teenage and beyond years, I today took James 5:16 and ran with it. Or, rather, walked with it, it's hot and I'm a large man and I had no money for parking... Basically, I grew up in a Baptist church and am going there...
  3. Zoii

    Archbishop convicted

    Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson will be sentenced next month for concealing historical child sex abuse after a magistrate reserved his decision at a hearing today. He is the world's most senior Catholic to be convicted of the offence Archbishop's health would suffer if jailed for concealing...
  4. Athanasius377

    Alexander Hislop

    There is something that is bothering me. I have noticed on several occasions that well-meaning christian brothers and sisters have cited a dubious work (or a derivative) from Alexander Hislop's book called The Two Babylons . . . . The work as best I can tell (I have not read the entire book...
  5. U

    The Great Evil of Abortion

    Hi. I would like to preface this by saying that I am a pro-life Catholic, and I always have been. I want to discuss the evil of abortion. I notice that many pro-lifers get hung up arguing about the evil of murdering babies, whether or not a fetus is a human, etc., and they fail to see the...
  6. Stabat Mater dolorosa

    Cardinal Müller: Accusation of ‘homophobia’ is an instrument of ‘totalitarian dominance’

    May 18, 2018 (OnePeterFive) – Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has given an interview to the Italian journalist Costanza Miriano, who works for the Italian television broadcaster RIA. In this new interview, the German cardinal rejects...
  7. Stabat Mater dolorosa

    Bishop Schneider: Priests who ‘bless’ gay unions will answer for it on Judgement Day

    May 21, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Clerics who “bless” homosexual unions are “reintroducing a kind of pagan temple prostitution,” which is “akin to apostasy,” Bishop Athanasius Schneider said in a newly-published interview addressing ongoing controversies and crises in the Catholic Church. Bishop...
  8. Stabat Mater dolorosa

    Cardinal Burke: False religions that permit abortion should be suppressed

    ROME, May 21, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Raymond Burke boldly voiced an unpopular but vitally important truth about the supreme role of Catholicism during a meeting of pro-life leaders gathered from around the globe in Rome. During a Q & A session at the Rome Life ForumBurke was asked...
  9. 002cotm Christian Heroes Of The Last 500 Years

    002cotm Christian Heroes Of The Last 500 Years

    I made a new friend in the comments section of my first blog entry here. :ebil: Hope to meet some new people with this one. Please comment and criticize until your heart is content. Today's entry is Christian Heroes of the Last 500 Years. The images are from my work-in-progress web project...
  10. Stabat Mater dolorosa

    Papal nuncio ‘ashamed’ that Cardinal opposes crosses in gov’t buildings

    GERMANY, May 1, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — German Cardinal Reinhard Marx, the liberal head of the German Bishops’ Conference who believes the Catholic Church owes an apology to gays, has strongly criticized Bavarian Premier Markus Söder for requiring crosses to be installed at the entrance of all...
  11. Stabat Mater dolorosa

    Cardinal Burke praises priests’ ‘courageous’ request that bishops correct ‘errors’ in Church

    May 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Raymond Burke said he hopes a new worldwide call of priests for bishops to issue a “reaffirmation of the Gospel” will “inspire their bishops to dispel the confusion of the present time in the Church and thus to begin to heal the division regarding the...
  12. Stabat Mater dolorosa

    US bishop slams dissident ‘Catholic’ news outlet for attacking EWTN, Knights of Columbus

    PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, May 3, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput scolded a dissenting, liberal outlet that calls itself ‘Catholic’ for an editorial filled with “paranoid venom” against the evangelization efforts of a number of lay Catholic groups that included...
  13. Stabat Mater dolorosa

    Vatican invites Katy Perry to talk about Transcendental Meditation

    VATICAN, May 2, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) — A Vatican conference has wrapped up featuring controversial pop-star Katy Perry speaking on transcendental meditation, disgraced Lettergate monsignor Dario Viganò delivering a talk on “Fake News,” and a “meditating eye” charm bangle given as a gift to select...
  14. Stabat Mater dolorosa

    The Catholic Church needs to wake up about Islam

    May 1, 2018 (Crisis Magazine) – When I first began writing about the Church and Islam, I devoted a lot of space to describing ways that Church leaders could resist the spread of Islam. It seemed only a matter of time until they would wake up to the need to resist. As it turned out, however, that...
  15. Stabat Mater dolorosa

    German Cardinal Marx praises father-of-communism Karl Marx

    GERMANY, May 1, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx' birth, Cardinal Reinhard Marx gave an interview in Germany in which he claimed that Marx unmistakably influenced Catholic social doctrine, adding that he was “impressed” by the Communist Manifesto. Karl...
  16. Man on Fire

    Building The Kingdom Of God: Understanding Vatican Ii And The Spiritual

    God's plan is the Kingdom of God. Good Christians should be working towards God's Kingdom. God's Kingdom is built when his will be done "On earth as it is in heaven." Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess. Someone really motivated towards building God's Kingdom may need to understand...
  17. ChristIsSovereign

    Got a New Book from the Library

    'Rediscovering Catholicism' by Matthew Kelly. It's been an interesting read so far. Good news: Mom is going to drop me off at the Vigil Mass tomorrow evening!
  18. ChristIsSovereign

    UPDATE: Curiosity about the Catholic/Orthodox Church

    Being a Protestant, although my Protestantism is weaker than it used to be, I was wondering how the Catholics come to the conclusion that they are the Church that Christ set up on Earth. Also, I am starting to believe that many of the Catholic practices are actually proper Christian behavior...
  19. T

    Came out as saved today

    I finally picked up the courage today to tell someone I've been saved by Jesus. After being told by a pastor on Good Friday of accepting my transition from Catholic to (born again) Christian it took me only four days to properly tell someone. My seed is sown, I'm not going back!
  20. T

    Start of a journey

    Hi, I'm new here so I'm gonna introduce myself. I'm a 20 year old guy from Ireland, and I've been Catholic all my life. But seven months ago I was invited to a Christian youth group. I was confused at the start but began to realise over a few months that I was missing something in my own faith...