Limitless Greed + Inequality + Market Volatility + Unemployment = An Occupied Wall Street. The small protest known as Occupy Wall Street has grown over the past 4 weeks. Occupy Wall St protests have spread across the United States and are now going world-wide. There is even a group planning a week-long protest at Civic Square in Read more
Reinstated Ireland parish priest, Fr Kevin Reynolds says the RTE media apology has freed him from false allegations, baseless accusations and lies. Reynolds was accused of raping a minor, named Veneranda while he was a missionary in Kenya and as a result of the rape, fathering a child named Sheila. In an apology, dated Thursday 6 Read more
Religious organisations are “closer to the real solution” in advocating fidelity to one partner at a time and delaying sexual debut than the technology promoted by the United Nations, the United States, the World Bank, the European Union and other global leaders, says Dr. Edward C. Green, president and director of the New Paradigm Research Read more
Actor Martin Sheen spoke in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 1 about his latest movie, which was filmed entirely along The Way of St. James, a European pilgrimage route that leads to the city of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. “If this is the last thing I ever do, I couldn’t be happier,” Sheen told his audience Read more
Bishop Philip Tartaglia of Paisley explained in a pastoral letter that marriage is designed for the mutual good of the spouses and to provide both a father and a mother to children. But same-sex unions are “different in nature and purpose from marriage” and should not be called by the same name, he said. He Read more
Ave Maria University was established in 2003 by Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s Pizza. The University has emphasized its strong commitment to the Catholic faith from its inception. But Bishop Dewane, bishop of the Diocese of Venice in Florida, had been cautious about granting the school official recognition, apparently because of concerns about the Read more
Some commentators are suggesting that religious liberty is under threat in the United States in both the legislature and the courts. At least one Bishop thinks there is a possibility that the Church will no longer be free to preach the truth from the pulpit or to present Catholic teaching. Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo, Read more
A Hungarian church leader has welcomed the fulfillment of state pledges to restore church properties to religious communities six decades after they were confiscated by the country’s communist regime. “This is the only area of church-state relations which has gone well in recent years. The process was transparent and well managed,” said Zoltan Tarr, general Read more
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has established a Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty in response a number of perceived attacks on religious freedom by Federal and State Departments. Bishop William Lori will chair the committee. Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the Bishops’ Conference, listed six particular areas of concern: • The Department of Health Read more
Perth Catholic Archbishop Barry Hickey said that the Archdiocese would stop officiating at legal marriages if it was forced to celebrate same-sex unions. When addressing parishioners of the Traditional Anglican Church parish of St Ninian and St Chad in Maylands on Sunday, he also commented that he was uncertain if the Church could bury Catholics Read more