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Nice Jihad: Bishop Blames Europe, Cardinal Names Islam White theologian slurs black cardinal as Islamophobic NICE, France (ChurchMilitant.com) - A Portuguese bishop is blaming European prejudices for the slaughter and beheading of three innocent Catholics by an illegal Muslim migrant in Nice's Notre Dame Basilica.Jihadi victims Nadine Devillers (left) and Simone Barreto Silva "Yesterday's attack on the cathedral in Nice is not Islam's fight against Christianity: It is the result of the prejudices of those Europeans who not only do not foster intercultural and interreligious dialogue but are always at the ready to accuse religions," Bp. Manuel Linda of Porto tweeted...

New Catholic Cardinal: Catholics Can't Vote for Pro-Abortion Candidates Washington, DC -- The Catholic leader who Pope Benedict named a new cardinal said in a new interview that faithful Catholics can't in good conscience vote for pro-abortion candidates. http://LifeNews.com/nat-6799

Washington, DC -- The president of the national conference of Catholic bishops recently elaborated further on the meeting he had in March with President Barack Obama. Cardinal George told a recent gathering of Catholic priests that Obama says he is not pro-abortion and will eventually work to reduce abortions.

While Father Z isn't sure about Mahony's plans for a priestless Church, he believes the archdiocesan hostility to traditional Catholicism has taken its toll on vocations. "I do know that a lot of priests have left. The cardinal likes a certain kind of priest. You can tell that they don't want vocations, because they do nothing to inspire vocations. He's purposely put a very liberal, feminist Sister (Kathy Bryant) as the vocations person. "I think if we got a reasonable archbishop of Los Angeles, all of a sudden things would just switch. There's such a small minority of the real...