John Paul II

Beatification of John Paul II will not take place in April of 2010, confirms Cardinal Bertone

Pope Benedict XVI Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Pope John Paul II Vatican City, Nov 6, 2009 / 02:02 pm ( CNA ).- The Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, denied reports this week claiming that Pope John Paul II will be beatified in April 2010. According to Vatican Radio, the cardinal said, “No, the news about the beatification next spring is not based on any concrete decision.” Several phases in the late Pope’s...

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Prayers to Our Lady of Guadalupe

Angels, Wonders, and Miracles (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago

Our Lady of Guadalupe - Guadalupe, Mexico (1531) Patroness of the Americas Protectress of the Unborn Feast Day in the USA - December 12th John Paul II’s Intercessory Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe O Immaculate Virgin, Mother of the true God and Mother of the Church!, who from this place reveal your clemency and your pity to all those who ask for your protection, hear the prayer that we address...

When the Wall came tumbling down

ProudToBeCanadian Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Twenty years ago on Nov. 9, a captive people of a divided continent literally with their hands dismantled the Berlin Wall. This wall represented not merely the totalitarian tyranny of Soviet Communism, but the eternal ugliness and evil of that inherent disposition in man to deny the freedom of another to live his life as he wishes. A whole generation has come of age since then with insufficient memory,...

The social assistance state

Ten Reasons (Free subscription) | yesterday

In a terrific primer for National Review Online, Fr. Thomas Williams, L.C., explains that from a Catholic perspective, the problems with socialized medicine and ObamaCare aren't limited to abortion, rationing/euthanasia, and the violation of conscience. Here's an excerpt: This uncritical approach certainly doesn’t describe all the bishops, and probably not even the majority. If the bills are...

Fatherless

The Curt Jester (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Every once and a while I want to read a novel that is explicitly Catholic in it's telling and plot and that it is not subtle, but hit you over the head Catholicism. A novel that puts itself in the Culture of Death and tells of the story of Catholics dealing with it. The novel Fatherless is very much in this camp. Though unlike many Christian novels with a message it is quite well written with interesting...

Pope Engineers TO Church

Whispers in the Loggia (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Almost three years after Archbishop Thomas Collins took the helm of Canada's largest local church, this morning Pope Benedict named two auxiliaries for the nearly 2 million-member Toronto archdiocese. Canada's first Asian prelate, Bishop-elect Vincent Nguyen, 43, left his native Vietnam at 18, was ordained in 1998, completed a licentiate in canon law last year and, just last month, was named TO's moderator...

Saint of the Day: St. Jean-Théophane Vénard, Martyr

Catholic Fire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

St. Jean-Théophane Vénard is one of the Martyrs of Vietnam . He was born in 1829 France and was raised in a pious family. He was ordained for the missions in 1852 and worked for 15 months in Hong Kong, before being transferred to Vietnam. Christians in the area were being persecuted by the ruler Minh-Menh, and just before Fr. Jean-Théophane’s arrival, clergy were forced into...

Forgetting the Fall -- By: An NRO Symposium

National Review Online (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

P res. Barack Obama has RSVPed “nein” to Chancellor Merkel’s invitation to Germany to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. National Review Online asked a few experts what this snub reveals about Obama. DINESH D’SOUZA I’m glad Obama is not going. Of course it’s a stupid move for him politically, but I’m all for stupid moves by this...

Catholic News for Novembe 6, 2009 A.D.

CVSTOS FIDEI (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

CVSTOS FIDEI FRIDAY EDITION Rick Santorum "Appalled" at Catholic Bishops - Matthew Arcbold, Crtv Mnrty Rprt George Washington and Catholics - Donald R. McClarey, The American Catholic Remember the Fifth of November - Jay Anderson, Pro Ecclesia Search for the Historical Jesus: Gospel According to Whom? - Eric Brown, TAC The Troublesome Term "Secular" - Michael Novak, InsideCatholic...

Pope John Paul's legacy continues to touch people, cardinal says

Pope Benedict XVI Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, speaks during the presentation of a new book on Pope John Paul II at St. Stanislaus Church in Rome Nov. 4. At left is Msgr. Slawomir Oder, postulator for Pope John Paul's sainthood cause. (CNS/Paul Haring) By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) -- Pope John Paul II lives on "because he has remained in people's hearts,"...

The First Commandment

Priests for Life (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

The First Commandment is “I am the Lord your God; you shall not have other gods besides me.” There are many ways of having false gods. Pope John Paul II once wrote that to think we are the ones who decide whether a child should be created is to say that God is not God. [...]

Beatification of John Paul II… not yet

What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

From CNA: Holy See says beatification of John Paul II not imminent Vatican City, Nov 4, 2009 / 04:49 pm (CNA).- The Holy See’s press office has denied a report published by the Italian daily La Repubblica, which made claims that John Paul II will be beatified in 2010 and that Rome and Krakow are locked in [...] Post from: WDTPRS Beatification of John Paul II… not yet

Italians Outraged as European Court Say No Crucifixes

Opinionated Catholic (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Ahh the EU is at it again. Father Z has It’s our identity, stupid! . I thinkl Pope John Paul the II made a huge tactical mistake in backing the EU. I think it was naive and based in the goodness of the Pope. He believed that after the fall of communism there would be some new Pentecost in Europe. Now the EU is being used to destroy the Church.

Murdered by communists: we will remember them

Blaney's Blarney (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

During this era of historical revisionism, when former communist fellow travellers such as Charles Clarke and Peter Mandelson occupy the highest seats in government, it is useful to be reminded - and to remind the young - quite how evil communism was and is. As we celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago this week (thanks, let us not forget, to the leadership and bravery of Ronald Reagan,...

Pope John Paul II 'to be beatified within months'

Pope Benedict XVI Blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009

The late Pope John Paul II could be beatified within months, setting him on the path to full sainthood, according to reports in Italy. Daily Telegraph By Nick Squires in Rome Published: 4:50PM GMT 02 Nov 2009 The late Pope John Paul II could be beatified within months, setting him on the path to full sainthood Photo: AP The mayor of Rome, who would play a pivotal role in organizing the event, said...