#8 Katie Ascough, Niamh Uí Bhriain, Cora Sherlock Three female Irish activists chose to make a stand for life in their once deeply-Catholic country, despite much resistance, even backlash, from their peers. “We may have lost a battle, but our cause will never be defeated." On January 1, 2019, abortion services became available in Ireland for [...]
#9 Vincent Guo Xijin Bishop in China “I am ready to face the persecution” Until 2018, Bishop Guo was the ordinary of the Diocese of Mindong, located in the southern province of Fujian. However, with the signing of the “provisional agreement” between the Vatican and China in September of 2018, which resulted in Pope Francis lifting [...]
"O Salutaris Hostia, Quae caeli pandis ostium!" ("O Saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below!") —A hymn in praise of Jesus Christ, composed by St. Thomas Aquinas, writing in the 1200s. Aquinas says the work of Jesus Christ was, through his sacrificial death, to open the gates of Heaven (eternity) to man. [...]
"For a long time I have held my peace, I have kept still and restrained myself; now I will cry out like a woman in travail... They shall be turned back and utterly put to shame, who trust in graven images, who say to molten images, 'You are our gods.'” — The Prophet Isaiah, 42:14 and [...]
"The glory of God is man alive, but the life of man is the vision of God." — St. Irenaeus, Against All Heresies, c. 180 A.D. in Lyons, France "The 'living man' intended by Irenaeus is Christ himself, in whose life we believers contemplate the Father's glory revealed in the Son." —Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon, in an [...]
Top, a moment from the controversial fund-raising event in Vienna's Cathedral of St. Stephen on Saturday, November 30. The figure in the center of the top photo, and in the lower photo, is Austrian singer Thomas Neuwirth, also known as Conchita Wurst. Neuwirth is an Austrian recording artist and "drag queen" known for his stage persona Conchita Wurst. He uses masculine [...]
Join Us On Giving Tuesday! Dear Friends, I hope everyone had a joy-filled Thanksgiving day weekend with their family and friends. My family gathered with my father to give thanks for our many years together. It is now the evening of "Giving Tuesday." The day was established in 2012 to focus [...]
CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Lo Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has published a new essay on an Italian website. Below an English translation Above, an artist's conception of a night-time aerial view of the "Abrahamic Family House" in Abu Dhabi. Each building is dedicated to one of the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and [...]
Emanuela Orlandi (in the pink sweater) with her family and Pope John Paul II at about age 11 in late 1978 of 1979, not long after Pope John Paul II was elected Pope (he was elected in October 1978). Four years later, on June 22, 1983, Emanuela would be kidnapped and never heard from again. Now, [...]
Photo Credit: Alexander Tschugguel/Twitter Alexander Tschugguel, 26, the young Catholic man from Vienna, Austria, who tossed five Pachamama images into the Tiber River in Rome on the morning of October 21. Tschugguel revealed in a video this morning that he was, in fact, the man, unidentified up until now, who took the images from [...]
