The Roman Catholic Church

Barack Obama is the only man in the state of Illinois to vote against the born alive infant protection act. In other words, Obama voted for infanticide while in the the state legislature. It's no wonder the Catholic Church has little confidence in anything Obama says that protects Catholic beliefs from federal tyranny, especially after last week when the Obama administration violated the First Amendment sending out an order that federal chaplains could not read the Pope's word on Obama...Read Full Story

Pope Benedict XVI has named Zamboanga Archbishop Romulo Valles as the new head of the Archdiocese of Davao, replacing Archbishop Fernando Capalla.Read Full Story

As noted recently on this blog, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee admitted in bankruptcy court filing 8,000 instances of sexual abuse of children and youths. 8,000 instances in a single archdiocese. Given the stories that have come out of Ireland, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium - not to mention all over the USA and Australia - the situation in Milwaukee was sadly most likely the norm. Likely millions of victims worldwide and how many bishops and cardinals have been removed from office and...Read Full Story

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops — which has led the opposition to the plan — said in a statement late Friday that the solution offered by the White House to quell a political furor was “unacceptable and must be corrected” because it still infringed on the religious liberty and conscience of Catholics. The bishops’ decision to rebuff the compromise means that “religious freedom” will continue to be a rallying cry for some Catholics who have heard it preached from the pulpit...Read Full Story

Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have asked a court to dismiss their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants. Attorney Jeff Anderson had filed the lawsuit at the peak of a European explosion of the [...] To continue reading this article, click on the headline.Read Full Story