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The Christian Party and Christian People's Alliance are running a joint slate The Christian Party and Christian People's Alliance have increased their share of the vote to come eighth in the European Parliament election. The parties, who fielded joint candidate lists, received a total of 249,493 votes - 1.6% of votes cast. It was the first time a Christian party had run in every region of Britain. "The challenge is now to build on our result at grassroots level and begin to make ourselves known," federal executive member Dr Tom Rogers said. "We do not despise the day of small...

I have to admit that I have a great partiality for the (ancient) Greek language, and often have pangs of regret that we do not use it more in the Roman Church. But this is a matter of personal liking, and I suppose if it was of huge importance I could always beaver off to some Eastern-rite Church, or become Orthodox. Yet somehow, whether it's Latin or Greek, not English seems to be important. Why is that? It matters whether we are talking about liturgy or other matters. We tend to think of the liturgy in such questions, but Latin...

EU the new Soviet Union: Russian Gulag Survivor By Hilary White May 14, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A prominent former Soviet dissident says that the European Union is disturbingly similar in its ideological foundations, and its methods, to the Soviet Union. Author and political activist Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky, who spent 12 years in the Russian gulag, is now warning the people of Europe that they are in danger of allowing a new totalitarian superstate to rise. "It is really puzzling to me," says Bukovsky in the documentary "Britain on the Brink," "that having just buried one monster, the Soviet Union, another...

The Fetishism of Dialogue By Rev. Robert Barron It was with a great deal of dismay that I listened to the speeches given last Sunday at Notre Dame by Fr. John Jenkins the President of the University and Barack Obama the President of the United States. Both are decent men and both are eloquent speakers, but both, I’m afraid to say, are confused in regard to some fundamental matters. Fr. Jenkins wrapped himself in the mantle of humility and open-mindedness, protesting that he was standing in the great Catholic intellectual tradition of dialogue and conversation, and President Obama cast himself...

Vatican City, May 18, 2009 / 01:32 pm (CNA).- Today the daily edition of L'Osservatore Romano provided two different stories related to President Obama, one slightly positive on his visit to Notre Dame, and another one strongly critical on his stand regarding embryonic stem cell research. The first article, titled "Obama in search for common ground," reports on President Obama's speech at Notre Dame. "The search for common ground seems to be the road chosen by the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to confront the sensitive abortion issue," L’Osservatore says. The Vatican newspaper also says that Obama chose...

The Patriotic Retirement Plan By Russell E. Saltzman Friday, May 8, 2009, 12:53 PM This is one person’s suggestion for fixing the economy. It appeared in a Florida newspaper that had asked readers to send along their best economic ideas: Patriotic retirement: There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. . . . Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations: They leave their jobs. Forty million job openings — unemployment fixed. They buy new American cars. Forty million cars ordered — auto industry fixed. They either buy a house or...

The Seal: A Priest's story, recalls the true story of an outrageous violation of religious liberty which created an unprecedented rift between the powers of Church and State. The story explores uncharted legal territory in this first impression case involving a priest, a penitent, a district attorney and the Catholic Church. Supported with a compelling Foreword written by Francis Cardinal George, Archbishop of Chicago, Fr. Mockaitis relates in both a very personal and public style the first time a violation of the seal of confession was alleged in a capital case in the United States, and the first time an...

April 30, 2009 Obama to wear robe with cross and Virgin Mary prayer at Notre Dame commencement Per CNSNews.com, April 28: President Barack Obama is expected to wear the traditional doctoral robe featuring the cross and prayer of the Virgin Mary when he speaks at... Notre Dame next month, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told CNSNews.com White House Correspondent Fred Lucas on Monday.... nd doctoral.jpg "I honestly don't know what the dress code is for that day. I can assume that the president would wear what one traditionally wears at that commencement," Gibbs told Lucas during Monday's White House...

The American Left attempts a bloodless coup Sandy Rios - Guest Columnist - 4/29/2009 8:45:00 Totalitarian movements have always destroyed their enemies. Peter the Great of Russia murdered members of the Streltsy military corps by taking the ax of the executioner to cut off their heads one by one himself. The Bolsheviks murdered the last Russian Czar—along with his wife and family—by telling them they were going to have their picture made. As they smiled into the camera, they were shot, buried and had acid poured over their remains. Stalin continued the blood bath of the Russian Revolution by murdering...

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 Hope Reigns on the Quad at Notre Dame! This past Sunday was the 5th annual Eucharistic Procession at Notre Dame. Actually, Notre Dame has sponsored dozens of Eucharistic Processions over the years, but they hadn't done it for a while until 2005 when a group of students decided to spearhead the effort. Since then, the powers that be at Notre Dame, Holy Cross College and St. Mary's have gotten behind the effort. The result is that this is truly a notable event in American Catholicism. That which happens at Notre Dame tends to influence on the...

It's a thriller, not an attack on the Howard's By Jeff Miller on April 23, 2009 I am producing a movie on Ron Howards family. In the movie based on my research I say his father was a drug pusher and his mother is a prostitute and that Ron Howard engages in S&M. All of the portrayal of Ron Howard and his family in my movie and the prequel I am doing later will be highly negative. I will present the Howard family as something totally based on lies and question whether his parents really were his parents in the...

RON HOWARD LIES ABOUT “ANGELS & DEMONS” April 21, 2009 Ron Howard, director of “Angels & Demons,” the movie version of Dan Brown’s book by that name, attacked Catholic League president Bill Donohue yesterday on the Huffington Post. Referring to a booklet on the movie that Donohue authored, “Angels & Demons: More Demonic than Angelic,” (click here) Howard wrote: “Mr. Donohue’s booklet accuses us of lying when our movie trailer says the Catholic Church ordered a brutal massacre to silence the Illuminati centuries ago. It would be a lie if we had ever suggested our movie is anything other than...

The singer Fairuz while born and baptized Syriac Orthodox, her mother was Maronite Catholic. After marrying, she converted to Greek Orthodox. Her music is heard throughout the region by all Christians. Wa-Habibi is played in Maronite Churches as well on Holy Friday. One could say, music is truly ecumenical! God Bless!

Christian Doctors Respond to Abortion Poll, Say Conscience Clause Needed by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor February 9, 2007 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A national organization for Christian doctors is responding to a survey in the New England Journal of Medicine showing 52 percent said they oppose abortion and others wouldn't refer women considering an abortion to a place that does them. The group says the poll shows the need for conscience clause legislation that protects the right of physicians to not be forced to be involved in medical practices that violates their moral or religious beliefs. The poll, sponsored by...

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART’S EASTER PRESENT: “THE POPE’S TOILET” April 8, 2009 Beginning today through April 13, New York City’s Museum of Modern Art is featuring the film, “The Pope’s Toilet.” Shown in Spanish with English subtitles, the movie revolves around a visit by Pope John Paul II to the poor town of Melo, Uruguay, near Brazil. Anticipating the arrival of the pope, townspeople make plans to set up food and drink stands, etc. One of them decides to make money by setting up an outdoor public pay toilet. The film is the work of two Uruguayans: writer Enrique Fernández...

Wednesday April 8, 2009 Cardinal Archbishop of Lima, Peru Calls Pro-Abortion Forces "Traitors" By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman LIMA, April 7, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Cardinal Archbishop of Lima, Peru denounced pro-abortion forces as "traitors" in a homily last Sunday in the cathedral of the diocese. "Human rights are often spoken of, but who defends the most defenseless one who is still within the womb of the mother?" Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani asked the crowd that had packed the cathedral. "We don't want to participate in this parade of traitors, because although they might be powerful throughout the world, they are...

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Do Condom Corporations Kill You for Your Money "When used consistently and correctly"... Abstinence = 0% Chance of Infection / 100% safe Condoms = 20% Chance of Infection / 80% safe "In one study, condoms failed to prevent HIV transmission 17% of the time (ref. 51). A review of several studies found that HIV infection rates for couples using condoms ranged from 13-27%" http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+barrier+performance+of+latex+rubber-a014089514 "...experts estimate that consistent condom use reduces the risk of HIV transmission by about 80 to 90 percent. We are unable to quantify this protective effect more precisely..." http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/354/25/2642 "...no barrier method...

Catholics Strongly Pro-Life on Abortion Despite Gallup Analysis by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The Gallup polling organization released a report yesterday that appears to downplay the pro-life teachings of the Catholic Church. The report, which has been bandied about the Internet over the last two days, says Catholics are no more pro-life on abortion than Americans as a whole. "Despite the Roman Catholic Church's official opposition to abortion and embryonic stem-cell research, a Gallup analysis finds almost no difference between rank-and-file American Catholics and American non-Catholics," Gallup claims. It points to its own survey data from...