Archive for March 30, 2007

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Catholic League outraged over six-foot chocolate Jesus

The Catholic League is calling for a boycott of the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City, after its Lab... Read more

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Federal law enforcement officials order Christian group to stop praying on sidewalk

The Christian Defense Coalition is claiming that their First Amendment rights have been violated after their public celebration of the... Read more

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Pro-life official urges senators to back cloning ban

The U.S. bishops’ Pro-Life Secretariat is urging senators to support a bill that will prohibit human cloning. The Human Cloning... Read more

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Archbishop warns radical secularism could turn Spain into atheistic society

In his latest pastoral letter, Archbishop Agustin Garcia Gasco of Valencia warns that “the radical secularism that we find the... Read more

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Proposed law would lead to 150,000 more abortions per year in Mexican Capital, pro-lifers warn

The National Pro-Life Committee in Mexico has warned that if a proposed law legalizing abortion in Mexico City is passed,... Read more

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Chinese parish begins 13 hours of daily Eucharist adoration

The parish of St. Peter and Paul in Yuan Lang, in the Diocese of Hong Kong, has begun Eucharistic adoration... Read more

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74 year-old Brazilian to be ordained to the priesthood in August

On August 19, Valdomiro Marcon will become one of the oldest men in Brazil to be ordained to the priesthood. ... Read more

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Three thousand march against abortion in Mexican city of Jalisco

More than three thousand people marched peacefully through the streets of the Mexican city of Jalisco this week in order... Read more

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Murder of Iraqi sisters stokes fear of Christians, archbishop says

Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, has described how the murder of two elderly Catholic sisters has shocked... Read more

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London Cardinal responds to U.K.’s new “intolerant” gay-rights laws

In his first major response to the passage of a new “anti-discrimination” law in the United Kingdom, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor... Read more

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Sister Marie Simon-Pierre speaks of miraculous cure at press conference

“All I can tell you is that I was sick and now I am cured.  It is for the church... Read more

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Pope encourages Ukrainians to carry their faith to other nations

Today in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received the Letters of Credence of Tetiana Izhevska, the new ambassador of the Ukraine... Read more