The more things change...
The more they remain the same.

The New York Times’ Smear on Pope Benedict


For Background:
The Myth of Pedophile Priests

God bless and preserve Pope Benedict. He's doing enough things right that he has raised the hackles of the anti-Christs out there. Give him the strength to stand against the wolves that now attack him.

An unlikely alliance?

Patron of the Arts

I found this intriguing
Baby Boom with Patriarch Promise to Personally Baptize Babies #3

I thought that this was a pertinent article

Michael Coren: Anti-papal hypocrisy spreads faster than AIDS

Italian Catholics sacrificing texting for Lent

I think that this is an excellent idea in so many ways. First, it involves real sacrifice for people who use these products. Second, it's a highly visible statement which I think in today's world is important. Third, it encourages alternative social interaction. And finally, it serves very effectively to demarcate the season.

I'd love to see this become an annual Lenten effort and I'd love to see it spread world-wide.

I'll always be a part of you




H/T

Recovering the past
In fact, he said, one of the questions that most concerns the prelates is that despite the fall of communism, "its structure has remained in legislation and in judicial power, in the economy, in education and in culture," and especially "in the veil of silence that has been hung over the events of the recent past."
...
He continued: "The 'sons of lies' have gathered the pieces of the Curtain and with them, they hide and cast a fog over the truth of the facts, regarding the individuals as well as certain institutions. Some, with the remains of the Curtain, sow the seed of division and confusion."

The truth, Cardinal Bozinac said, "is that the Curtain has fallen, that the system has broken, but that the pieces are very resistant and show themselves by promoting the same falsehoods not only through politics and the relationship with the past, but also with education, science, and teaching."

SPXX and the Pope

Beating Up on the Pope

Gallup Poll: Most Americans Disapprove Obama Funding Abortion Overseas

Heartbreaking
Pro-Abortion Marie Stopes Eager for American Funds to Promote Abortion in Kenya

Standing with Peter.

Is Sustainable Development a code word for anti-human?

Jonathon Porritt, who chairs the [British] government’s Sustainable Development Commission, says curbing population growth through contraception and abortion must be at the heart of policies to fight global warming. He says political leaders and green campaigners should stop dodging the issue of environmental harm caused by an expanding population... Porritt, a former chairman of the Green party, says the government must improve family planning, even if it means shifting money from curing illness to increasing contraception and abortion.

Her name is Rebecca Kiessling. Her "crime" was being conceived through rape.


H/T

How ironic that the ‘Love’ Generation should spawn such a culturally accepted abomination as abortion.

H/T to Creative Minority Report

Christmas in Dubai

Washington Doctors, Hospitals Refuse to Take Part in New Assisted Suicide Law

To Mr PennyPincher - on Church Adornment
I particularly liked this line:

"If the body consumes both the spiritual and the physical food, what will the soul feed on then? Have you not heard how the godless people in Moscow have turned everything into bread, ate it and now they hunger - and they hunger now like Russia has not hungered since the times of Askold and Dir"

From the USCCB

They bishops offered their remarks in a November 4 letter to President-elect Obama from Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The letter follows.

Dear President-elect Obama,

I write to you, in my capacity as President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, to express our congratulations on your historic election as President of the United States. The people of our country have entrusted you with a great responsibility. As Catholic Bishops, we offer our prayers that God give you strength and wisdom to meet the coming challenges.

Our country is confronting many uncertainties. We pray that you will use the powers of your office to meet them with a special concern to defend the most vulnerable among us and heal the divisions in our country and our world. We stand ready to work with you in defense and support of the life and dignity of every human person.

May God bless you and Vice President-elect Biden as you prepare to assume your duties in service to our country and its citizens.

Sincerely yours,

Francis Cardinal George, OMI
Archbishop of Chicago

President

Happy Constitution Day!

Reproductive technologies are creating children who have no real biological parents. They deserve better.

I love this line.
“If you’re Catholic and you disagree with your Church. What do you do? You change your mind.”

The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy is proposing Friday as a national day of prayer and fasting in the wake of the desecration of the Eucharist by a Minnesota professor.

Perpetual Adoration on the Mount of the Beatitudes

Something that I didn't know:
The Saudi Arabian government has just announced that 40,000 Imams will be “retrained” to eliminate extremist tendencies in their teachings.

from Osama and The Pope

The first Catholic Church in Qatar in over 14 centuries

Once St Mary's open its doors to the faithful, Saudi Arabia will be the only Gulf country that still prohibits the building of churches within its borders.

The Road of Bitter Sweet

FREEDOM!

"If the Pope won't come to La Sapienza,
La Sapienza will come to the Pope."

"This is just a part of the secularist culture that has no argument,
so it demonizes,
it does not argue as a real secular culture,
but creates monsters."
Professor Giorgio Israel

O Holy Night! The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining.
Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.
Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices!
O night divine, the night when Christ was born;

US and Iran in talks on Iraq

US general says Iran helping stop Iraq bloodshed

This is truly amazing


[h.t. Mark Shea ]

Iraqi Muslims Message to Iraqi Christians
"Come Home" to Dora

I just read this and I wanted to pass it on!
Keep your fork

Pope Benedict XVI and Saudi King Abdullah Abdullah focus on religious freedom, says Arab press. The Saudi monarch met the Pope in his capacity as “Custodian of the two holy mosques.”