Article: Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican

Ion Mihai Pacepa writing in NRO:
In my other life, when I was at the center of Moscow’s foreign-intelligence wars, I myself was caught up in a deliberate Kremlin effort to smear the Vatican, by portraying Pope Pius XII as a coldhearted Nazi sympathizer. Ultimately, the operation did not cause any lasting damage, but it left [...]

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Theme: Adoption in Britain

CWNews: No exemption for British Catholic adoption agencies
Turning down an appeal from the country’s Catholic hierarchy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has announced that Church-run agencies will not be exempt from a new policy requiring equal treatment for same-sex couples.
Saying that “there is no place in our society for discrimination,” Blair announced [...]

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Report: Muslims ‘about to take over Europe’

From The Jerusalem Post:
Islam could soon be the dominant force in a Europe which, in the name of political correctness, has abdicated the battle for cultural and religious control, Prof. Bernard Lewis, the world-renowned Middle Eastern and Islamic scholar, said on Sunday.
The Muslims “seem to be about to take over Europe,” Lewis said at [...]

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Report: Thousands march against abortion in Lisbon

From Reuters:
Thousands of anti-abortion protesters took to the streets of Lisbon on Sunday urging Portuguese to reject a referendum aimed at lifting the ban on abortion in this deeply Catholic country.
Up to 15,000 people joined a “walk for life” that began in front of a Lisbon maternity hospital, police and organizers said.
“The law has to [...]

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Report: Pope’s Latinist pronounces death of a language

From the Telegraph:
For years it was derided by unwilling schoolboys for being “as dead as dead could be”. Now, despite the Vatican’s best efforts, the Pope’s top adviser on Latin has reluctantly joined them by saying the language of St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas is almost extinct.
“It is dying in the Church. I’m not [...]

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Clarity on the Catholic Doctrine on War, Part 1

It must be noticed…that the clash of armed forces which constitutes war is not in itself sinful. Sin enters when war is unjust. There are today two odd extremes of opinion. The first glorifies war and admits no legal limitations to military victory. The other completely condemns war, refusing to admit any justification whatsoever for [...]

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Destination: Santiago de Compostela

“Nobody is a true pilgrim unless he is journeying towards the ‘house of St. James’.”
– Dante
History
ExperiencePlus: The History of the Santiago de Compostela – St James in the Field of the Star
After Christ’s crucifixion, Saint James, son of Zebadeo and Salome and brother of Saint John the Evangelist, journeyed to Spain to evangelize the [...]

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Report: Bethlehem Christians fear neighbors

From The Jerusalem Post:
A number of Christian families have finally decided to break their silence and talk openly about what they describe as Muslim persecution of the Christian minority in this city.
The move comes as a result of increased attacks on Christians by Muslims over the past few months. The families said they wrote [...]

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Article: Christians under Attack in China

Frederick W. Stakelbeck Jr. writing in FrontPageMag:
In March 2006, Human Rights Watch noted that over one year after the passage of China’s Regulations on Religious Affairs – regulations that state Chinese citizens have a constitutionally guaranteed right to freedom of religious belief – little progress had been made. The regulations, the first comprehensive action designed [...]

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Theme: Demography and Decline

CWNews: Italy’s demographic slump continuing
The latest demographic statistics for 2005 show only 1.33 children being born to the average woman in Italy over the course of her childbearing years (15-49).
That figure remains one of the lowest in Europe, and well below the “replacement level” needed to maintain a constant population, but somewhat higher [...]

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