Pope Starts Lent As Ash Wednesday Rites Scaled Back For COVID-19 Via Reuters: Pope Francis led the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics into Lent on Ash Wednesday, as they scaled back a centuries-old ritual to help stem the spread of the coronavirus. Francis, who normally marks the start of the penitential season with an outdoor procession between two ancient churches in Rome, instead said a Mass for about 120 people […]
FULL DISCLOSURE NOTE: One of the Slaves To The Immaculate Heart at The Saint Benedict Center is the host of The CRUSADE Channel's Reconquest Show, Brother André Marie. From Friends of The Saint Benedict Center... The scandal plagued Diocese of Manchester is singing a new tune about the traditional Catholic religious order---the Richmond based Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary---which it has spent the last two years trying to […]
Cuban Priests Urge Rise Against Communism Via Breitbart: A coalition of 15 Catholic priests working in Cuba defied the Communist Party and decades of Vatican distance from Cuban politics to publish a letter this weekend urging the Cuban people to “co-involve” themselves in their own liberation from communism and work to “break the chains” of the Castro regime. The letter, published in English by the U.S.-based human rights organization Global […]
Pope Urges More Nations To Join U.N. Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Via Reuters: Pope Francis on Wednesday urged more nations to join a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons, saying their prohibition is badly needed to promote peace today. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect on Friday and has been signed by 86 states, according to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won the […]
President Trump Signs Executive Order Making Christmas Eve Federal Holiday This Year Via Just The News: Christmas Eve will be a federal holiday this year, thanks to a new executive order signed on Friday by President Trump. The executive order states that “all executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government shall be closed and their employees excused from duty on Thursday, 24 December 2020, the day before Christmas Day.” […]
China Says Pope's Remarks About "Persecuted" Uighurs Are Groundless Via Reuters: The Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday dismissed Pope Francis’s criticism of China’s treatment of Muslim Uighurs as groundless. In a new book “Let Us Dream: The Path to A Better Future,” Pope Francis said: “I think often of persecuted peoples: the Rohingya, the poor Uighurs, the Yazidi.” It was the first time he had called China’s Uighurs a persecuted […]
After McCarrick Report, Pope Vows To 'Uproot Evil' Of Sexual Abuse Via Reuters: Pope Francis, in his first public comment after the release of an explosive report on the Vatican’s mishandling of the case of ex-U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, on Wednesday again vowed to put an end to sexual abuse in the Church. “Yesterday, the report about the painful case of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick was published. I renew my closeness […]
Three Dead As Woman Beheaded In Knife Attack At French Catholic Church Via Reuters: A woman was beheaded by an attacker with a knife who also killed two other people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police said, in an incident the city’s mayor described as terrorism. Mayor Christian Estrosi said on Twitter the knife attack had happened in or near the city’s Notre Dame […]
Pope Reverts To Mask-Less Old Ways Amid Growing Criticism Via AP News: A day after donning a face mask for the first time during a liturgical service, Pope Francis was back to his mask-less old ways Wednesday despite surging coronavirus infections across Europe and growing criticism of his behavior and the example he is setting. Francis shunned a face mask again during his Wednesday general audience in the Vatican auditorium, […]
