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9th Circuit struggling with freedom of speech challenge
The following comes from a May 15 posting on the Trial Insider. In mid-April we wrote that a three-judge appellate panel appeared to struggle during arguments with the potentially far-reaching implications of a constitutional challenge to California’s ban on gay conversion therapy. It appears they are still struggling. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of [...]
Catholic scouts on notice
The following comes from a May 15 posting by Ed Whelan on National Review Online. The National Catholic Committee on Scouting has issued a statement that, if properly applied, ought to require faithful Catholic scout leaders to vote against the Boy Scouts of America’s proposed resolution to allow openly gay youth members. The NCCS [...]
IRS audited Anne Hendershott after she critiqued fake Catholics
The following comes from a May 15 story on TheBlaze.com. Hendershott was a professor of sociology at the University of San Diego 1993-2008 and now teaches at Franciscan University at Steubenville, Ohio. In the midst of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scandal, individuals and groups, alike, are continuing to come forward with ever-startling allegations. On [...]
Churches worth driving to
Name of Church Our Lady of Lebanon Address 600 El Camino Real, Millbrae CA 94030 Phone number (650) 652-6445 Website www.maronite-sf.org Liturgy times Sundays, 10 a.m. (English/Aramaic) and 11:30 a.m. (Arabic/Aramaic) Holy days, 7:30 p.m. (English/Arabic/Aramaic) Music Choir at the Sunday, 11:30 a.m. Mass, cantors at the other Masses. Confessions 30 minutes before Divine Liturgy, [...]
Mr. Obama, here’s how to make abortion rare
The following comes from a May 15 press release issued by Christian Newswire. Today U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, and U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS), announced the introduction of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. The legislation, which has been introduced as H.R. [...]
What ails Verbum Dei High School?
The following comes from an April 30 email to Cal Catholic. Last month you reported on Verbum Dei High School in Los Angeles when a pro-abortion politician, Holly Mitchell, was found to be on their school board and even gave a class in social justice and it seems that “the hits just keep on [...]
Cardinal Mahony still confirming Los Angeles youth
The following comes from a May 9 story in the Los Angeles Times. When Archbishop Jose Gomez stripped his predecessor, Cardinal Roger Mahony, of public duties for mishandling clergy sex abuse cases, a church spokesman said the retired prelate’s life would remain largely the same with one exception: confirmations. No longer would Mahony preside at [...]
California delivers free condoms to 12-year-olds
The following comes from a May 6 story on Ruthblog from the Ruth Institute. Middle-school California kids, now you can be as sexually profligate as you want to be–and your parents don’t even have to know about it! The California Condom Access Project, run by the California Health Council, which is making condoms available for [...]
Justice Ginsburg calls Roe a disappointing decision
The following comes from a May 14 story on the Catholic News Agency website. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an abortion rights advocate, says that the court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 was overreaching and became too big a “target” for pro-life supporters. “That was my concern, that the court had given opponents [...]
Why Pope Francis doesn’t give Communion
The following comes from a May 9 story by Sandro Magister in La Repubblica. There is one particular in the Masses celebrated by Pope Francis that raises questions that have so far gone unanswered. At the moment of communion, pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio does not administer it himself, but allows others to give the consecrated [...]
Obama invites Planned Parenthood to Mother’s Day event
The following comes from a May 13 story on LifeSiteNews.com. As part his national celebration of Mother’s Day, President Barack Obama invited the nation’s leading abortion provider to a White House event and sent out a tweet boasting that his administration forces employers to provide women with birth control at no co-pay. Obama saw that [...]
California state assembly passes transgender bills
The following comes from a May 9 posting on the Capitol Alert section of the Sacramento Bee website. Two bills aimed at eliminating obstacles transgender people face cleared the Assembly along party lines on Thursday, including one that will allow students to select the bathroom and sports team that correlates with their gender identity. Assemblyman [...]
The most fulfilling thing
The following comes from a story by Patsy Gonzalez which appeared on the Project Gabriel website. After raising my family, being involved with mentoring mothers through the Gabriel Project of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the pregnancy resource center in San Jose where I volunteer has been the most fulfilling thing I could ever have chosen [...]
Women’s ‘ordinations’ identify rotten parishes
The May 9 issue of California Catholic Daily linked to an article from the Contra Coast Times on the ordination into a group called the Roman Catholic Woman Priests of a woman named Maureen Mancuso. The second line of the Times story “Now, she’s facing excommunication for what she will do Saturday: become the first [...]
Pope surprises, joins March for Life
The following comes from a May 12 story on LifeSiteNews.com Pope Francis surprised about 40,000 Italian and international participants in today’s Marcia per la Vita (March for Life) Internazionale in Rome this morning, when he left the ApostolicPalace to greet them personally from his popemobile in the street where they were lined up. Monsignore Ignacio Barreiro, the head of [...]
Lila Rose gets LeRoy Carhart on video
The following comes from a May 10 story on the Catholic News Agency website. New footage by an undercover investigative group shows a prominent late-term abortionist joking about the abortion procedure and telling women not to seek emergency care if something were to go wrong. “Dr. (LeRoy) Carhart’s testimony is shocking and sickening,” said Lila [...]
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