CATHOLIC NEWS: Belgian police raid archdiocesan offices, home of Cardinal Daneels... PLUS 13 MORE

CATHOLIC NEWS: Belgian police raid archdiocesan offices, home of Cardinal Daneels... PLUS 13 MORE

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Belgian police raid archdiocesan offices, home of Cardinal Daneels

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 09:05 AM PDT

Police in Belgium have raided the offices of the Archbishop of Brussels, and the home of retired Cardinal Godfried Daneels, in an investigation of sexual abuse. A police spokesman said...

Adult stem cell stunner: blind can now see

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:59 PM PDT

It's being hailed as a major breakthrough in treating the visually impaired -- and some of the results are truly amazing: Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells -- a stunning success for the burgeoning cell-therapy field...

Vatican Secret Archives hold tales fascinating ... and not

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 11:31 PM PDT

Papal records dating back to the 800s don't include anything on sexual abuse scandals, but do on World War II and Knights of the Templars.

Macy's, "Christianists" and Catholics like You

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 09:45 AM PDT

Well, I went there. My post from last Friday ("Photos: Macy's Gay Wedding Street Ads") made it into the Washington Times' Culture Briefs section, earned me a "Malkin Award" nomination and the title "Christianist" from the popular gay blogger Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic...

A little dose of St. Thomas for those who think faith is nonsense

Posted: 24 Jun 2010 05:44 AM PDT

During yesterday's general audience at St. Peter's, Pope Benedict delivered the third of three installments of his catechesis on the perennial importance of St. Thomas Aquinas. The whole message is excellent, and I would like to draw your attention to a few things he said about the rationality of belief in God and the irrationality of atheism.

Schoolmaster of the Republic

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:00 PM PDT

Like millions of other Americans, you may have watched this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee on television. The Bee is a tradition dating back to 1925, and has participants from around the world. This year there were 273 spellers speaking 102 different languages besides English. As John Murray wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal...

A Preacher "In and Out of Season": Fr. Hardon's Cause for Sainthood

Posted: 21 Jun 2010 10:03 PM PDT

Last year, Archbishop Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, was back in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, Missouri. During the course of his busy four-day visit, he officiated at a Rite of Blessing for the office of the Fr. John A. Hardon S.J., Archive and Guild...

The Perspicuity of Scripture and Other Creation Myths

Posted: 22 Jun 2010 10:03 PM PDT

Last week, I wrote a little piece on the ways in which the various Protestantisms filter the sometimes ambiguous text of Scripture through various semi-permeable membranes in order to accept the bits of the Catholic Tradition they approve of while a) removing those things they dislike and b) stapling on those human ideas and notions they want to add or elevate to the status of Divine Revela.

Defenders respond to criticisms of CNA report

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 06:04 PM PDT

Controversy continues about the Catholic News Agency story on Cardinal Francis George's criticism of the Catholic Health Association's (CHA) actions during the health care debate. Defenders of CNA note the substance of the report is supported by other sources, while critics focus on the accuracy of several quotations.

On the Feast of the John The Baptist: A Strange and Wonderful, Though Long Delayed Answer

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:31 PM PDT

On this feast of the Birth of St. John the Baptist we celebrate the Birth of the final Prophet of the Old Testament. He stood at the culmination of the Old Covenant and emphatically pointed to the New. He drew back the curtain on all that that the ancient prophets longed to see. His birth...

ISRAEL: Whose Land Is It? (Pt. 2)

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 05:18 PM PDT

By Jimmy Akin | In our previous post on this subject, we looked at the claim that the Jewish people have a claim to the territory currently occupied by the modern state of Israel because they were promised it in the Bible. We saw that reasonable people could take different views of this subject...

Behold the destruction that Marcial Maciel hath wrought

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 01:20 PM PDT

By now, a year and a half after the well casing of Marcial Maciel's double life finally blew apart, wrecking the Legion-of-Christ rig he had constructed to house and conceal it, and gushing a torrent of nauseating revelations into the public consciousness, we all have a bad case of Maciel-fatigue. I know I do. I'm sick of it.

Richard McBrien's favorite bishops! Make popcorn

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 08:41 AM PDT

When John Paul II came to the See of Peter in 1978 the Church was in the verge of splintering. One of the late Pope's greatest accomplishments was to drag us back from the edge of schism. Over many years, John Paul shifted the balance of the world's episcopate.

5Q+1: Grossman's faithful reasoning

Posted: 23 Jun 2010 03:32 PM PDT

If you're not following Cathy Lynn Grossman on Twitter or include Faith & Reason & USA Today 's religion stories bookmarked/on your RSS feed, stop whatever you're doing and right that wrong. Grossman might be one of the most connected religion reporters on the map, monitoring the news and staying in touch with religious leaders all over the country.