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Praying for our president
Catholics will gather for a peaceful prayer vigil tomorrow for human dignity at St. Timothy Parish in Mesa. President Barack Obama will be speaking at 10 a.m. across the street at Dobson High School. The vigil will with Mass at 8:30 a.m., but those planning to attend are encouraged to arrive between before 6:30 a.m. [...]
Catholic Headlines
Boston College is facing some challenges reestablishing its Catholic identity. The Boston Globe reports that the college recently completed an eight-year project “to dramatically increase the presence of Roman Catholic religious symbols on campus,” but not everyone on the faculty is happy. The Associated Press today ran an article about communities preparing for immigration enforcement [...]
FOCA shall not pass?
For the second time in less that a week, I’ve stumbled across an opinion piece arguing that the Freedom of Choice Act, which would do away with a lot of pro-life legislation, doesn’t stand a chance. “Here’s the reality: FOCA has as much chance of passage as the 0-10 Detroit Lions have of winning the [...]
Diocese of Charleston, Communion and Obama
It went like this: Fr. Jay Scott Newman, pastor of St. Mary Parish in Greenville, South Carolina, wrote in his bulletin that those who voted for Barack Obama should go to confession before receiving Communion. Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exists constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics [...]