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People Daily (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Suspected Al-Qaida affiliated militants tossed a grenade early Saturday at abandoned Roman Catholic Church in the volatile southern Philippines but there were no reported casualties. Philippine military regional spokesman Major David Hontiveros told reporters the steel fence of San Isidro Labrador church was partially damaged in the blast that occurred shortly before 1:00 a.m. in the...
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Religion Clause (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to Friday's London Telegraph , a forthcoming book has created a stir in Britain by arguing that Queen's Chapel , built between 1623 and 1625 as part of St. James Palace, is still legally available for use as a Catholic church by any member of the Royal Family that should desire to do so, despite the 1701 Act of Settlement that bars a British monarch from being a member of the Catholic...
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Liberal England (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
As is now traditional the best firework display in Market Harborough last night was the one given by the town's Roman Catholic primary school. It is a pleasing paradox and a rejoinder to those who think like Combom : Read your history books, bonfire night is an anti-catholic, pro-parliamentary celebration - I'm not saying its right or wrong to celebrate it, my daughter isn't going...
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | yesterday
Is the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) being “bashed” these days, as writer Michael Coren recently claimed on these pages? Coren even goes so far as to say that RCC-bashing is “the last acceptable prejudice” in Western society — which suggests an element of base religious bigotry. On the other hand, is it possible that the torrent of criticism aimed at the Church...
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Sevenoaks, St John the Baptist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A truly good article about the above title can be found on the Catholic Herald here .
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - A bankrupt U.S. Roman Catholic diocese has agreed to provide long-sought documents to alleged sex abuse victims in exchange for a postponement in the start of trials, an attorney for the plaintiffs said on Friday.
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U.S. News (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
A Times reporter rebuts charges from New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan that her paper is anti-Catholic.
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Out Gay Life (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
An Atheist state-church separation group today called for an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service into the activities of a Roman Catholic Bishop in Brooklyn, NY for possible violation of campaign and IRS regulations.On Monday, The New York Tim... Group Calls for Investigation of Catholic Brooklyn Diocese for Campaign Violations is a post from the Out Gay Life Family of...
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Triablogue (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The issue of the popularity of the Roman Catholic view of Mary came up in another thread . There was widespread opposition to the Catholic view of Mary in early post-apostolic church history. The Catholic view of her, in its entirety, isn't found in any extant document of the earliest centuries, despite agreement with some aspects of the Catholic view among some sources....
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Catholicmomof10militant (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Catholic Education Service at the service of whom? Kate from At Home in My Father's House here writes Driving home tonight, I caught some of Radio 4's PM news programme in which changes to sex education in schools in England were announced. The main differences seem to be that sex and relationships education will now become mandatory in schools including 'faith' schools and the parental...
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Bene Diction Blogs On (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
It is fascinating to me how Bill Donohue of the US Catholic League attempts to provoke. It is also fascinating how he attempts to downplay child abuse by the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland by deflecting to a Reuters story. This aired on Today FM with Matt Cooper in Ireland on May 30th and came to [...]
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Exiled Preacher (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Evangelicals and Catholics Together have produced a joint-statement, Do Whatever He Tells You: The Blessed Virgin Mary in Christian Faith and Life . ECT continues on the assumption that Evangelicals and Roman Catholics as those who "accept Christ as Lord and Savior are brothers and sisters in Christ". We wish that this were the case, but there has to be...
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Indecision Forever (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
How long has it been since your computer monitor had a good punching? Why do you ask? Oh, no reason. Just wondering. On a completely unrelated note… "We went up against tremendous odds," Marc Mutty, public affairs director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland who has been on loan to the campaign, said from Portland. "We all [...]
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internetmonk.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
No one reading, writing or commenting on the posts in this interview has ever been as angry as yours truly over the claims of the Roman Catholic Church. In ‘07 and ‘08, I was torn apart by this question. Being unable to commune with my wife or Catholic friends, knowing my ordination to the Gospel ministry [...]
