Winchester, VA - The Gatestone Institute is reporting that the future of the Cathedral of Córdoba is in doubt. A Christian basilica for hundreds of years before Muslims destroyed it and turned it into the Great Mosque of Cordoba in 714, it was re-consecrated after the reconquest under King Ferdinand III in 1523. Muslims have long-eyed Cordoba as the lost caliphate, and have wished to turn the Cathedral in to a […]
Winchester, VA - UPI is reporting that according to a report by investigator and attorney Ulrich Weber, 547 cases of abuse were documented at the Regensberger Domspatzen Catholic choir school between 1945 and 2015. 67 of the 547 cases involved sexual abuse. The other abuses which took place were corporal in nature, such as ear-twisting and beatings with objects such as canes. Former students described the school as “a prison, hell […]
Winchester, VA - Catholic daily journal La Croix is reporting that Munich's Cardinal Reinhard Marx, head of the German bishops' conference and a close advisor to Pope Francis, declared in an interview on July 14 that the Church should be less concerned about the legalization of homosexual marriage in Germany and more concerned about the Church having done nothing to repeal German laws which allowed the prosecution of homosexuals. Other insights […]
Winchester, VA - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI seems to be reflecting on the critical situation of the Catholic Church as of late. One Peter Five reports that at the funeral of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, the Pope Emeritus likened the church to a threatened barque in one part of his message, which was read by his Personal Secretary, Archbishop Georg Gänswein. The message read: “However, what moved me all the more was […]
Winchester, VA - La Stampa has revealed that new testing done upon the Shroud of Turin has revealed that the cloth was used to cover a man who endured multiple traumatic injuries. Nanoparticles on a pristine fiber extracted from the shroud around the left foot were studied using electron microscopy, and revealed high levels of ferritin and creatinine, which are not present in such levels in a normal, healthy person, but […]
Bai MacFarlane is the founder of Mary's Advocates, an organization which helps Catholics use Canon law to help prevent the unilateral breakup of their marriages. In an interview on The Mike Church Show yesterday, Bai explained how, despite Canon Law being clear on the issue, her organization was prohibited from receiving an imprimatur for a brochure which explains to Catholics that they need to receive the permission of the Bishop […]
Winchester, VA - The BBC and the Telegraph are reporting that the so-called “Catholic” country of Malta has voted to legalize same-sex marriage. For a country that legalized civil partnerships three years ago, the move was less controversial than the other amendments made to the marriage act, which involved replacing the terms “mother” and “father” with “parent who gave birth” and “parent who did not give birth.” The Catholic Church was […]
Winchester, VA - LifeSite News reports that Archbishop Alexander Sample of the Diocese of Portland, Oregon has released his guidelines for the implementation of Pope Francis' Amoris Laetitia in his diocese. In his guidelines, he states that Catholics who live in “serious sin,” especially those in active homosexual relationships and those who are divorced and remarried, but are not living as brother and sister, need to “sacramentally confess all serious sins […]
Winchester, VA - The Catholic Register is reporting that New York police are searching for a man who threatened the Mother Superior of a religious order in the Co-Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon. The shirtless man approached the Mother Superior and said to her, “I don't believe in this because you don't help the poor.” She had no response to him, and he became insistent, asking her, […]
