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ROME, February 14, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – If our readers will forgive the self-indulgence, I thought I would talk frankly about my feelings, for a change, since I suspect that I am not alone in them. There have been few newsworthy events of…

ROME, February 13, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It was an emotional day at the Vatican as Pope Benedict XVI, in two of his last public addresses, called again on Christians to continue to defend the lives of innocent unborn and vulnerable people and…

ROME, February 8, 2013, (LifeSiteNews.com) – The belief by many Catholics in politics, supported by many in the Catholic hierarchy and clergy, that it is possible to be in active support of legalised abortion and remain in good standing with the…

ROME, February 7, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Since Monday, the Catholic and pro-family internet has been abuzz with conflicting articles and blog posts about comments by a Vatican prelate who was reported to have supported legal structures…

ROME, February 4, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In recent comments to the German newspaper Die Welt, Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller has said that recent “targeted campaigns to discredit” the Catholic Church remind him of a “pogrom sentiment.” The…

TRIESTE, January 28, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Earlier this month about two hundred homosexualist activists, including a number of local politicians, demonstrated in front of the residence and offices of the Catholic bishop of Trieste. The bishop…

ROME, January 28, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Developing one of the main themes of his pontificate, Benedict XVI warned on Saturday against the temptation to a relativistic understanding of marriage.

In a speech to the Roman Rota, the Vatican’s…

DUBLIN, January 24, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A member of Ireland’s leading “progressivist” liberal priest group, the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP), has announced that he will not comply with demands from the Vatican that he affirm…

Dana Rosemary Scallon was a popular singer in Ireland who turned to politics when she saw her country going down the wrong path.

There is a school of historical thought that says the Irish saved western civilisation after the Roman Empire…

It’s not often that a story catches my attention that isn’t a Doom n’ Gloomer about the impending end of Western Civilisation and All Good Things. I tend toward the melancholic/choleric end of the temperament scale, as readers may have noticed.
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ROME, January 14, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Children are being used as bargaining chips in a global struggle between two radically opposed theories of human nature, a leading Catholic bioethicist said this weekend in the Vatican’s newspaper…

ROME, January 9, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “What sort of man” must a bishop be? The kind of man who can face persecution without flinching, Pope Benedict XVI said at the Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany at St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday.… Continue Reading »

ROME, January 7, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In his New Year address today to the members of the Holy See’s diplomatic corps, Pope Benedict XVI called for governments to promote peace based on “the protection of human beings and their…

ROME, January 7, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The strongly pro-abortion “human rights” organization The Elders has just announced the hiring of Lesley Anne Knight, recently fired by the Vatican as head of Caritas International, as its new CEO.…