This piece of macabre sacrilege was unveiled this past Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta in Gallarate near Milan. The La Repubblica report says that this travesty of an altar was designed by Claudio Parmiggiani and has generated heated controversy, with some Novus Ordos even calling it “satanic.”
Shucks! Francis doesn’t want us to be Catholic either.
“A Christian cannot be an anti-Semite; we share the same roots. It would be a contradiction of faith and life. Rather, we are called to commit ourselves to ensure anti-Semitism is banned from the human community,” he said. MORE
Pope Francis said Wednesday that those who spread gossip are terrorists whose words are grenades that destroy other people’s reputations.
“Gossipers are killers,” the pope told the 20,000 pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square for his weekly audience. “They kill others because the tongue kills like a knife. Be careful!” MORE
Observers are calling this week’s U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops assembly a high-stakes opportunity for the bishops to address their role in the ongoing child sex abuse crisis that has rocked the church this year. MORE
There’s a song by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, “In My Life,” that I’ve always associated with human relationships, but after this weekend, I’ll link it to physical places—historic Jewish institutions like Camp Hess Kramer and Gindling Hilltop Camp, ravaged by the wildfires in California. MORE
Dear Catholics: There is a Joseph in the old Testament, in the New Testament and in the Last Testament.
The Truth is a broken record. It’s the same tune over and over again. The Church teaches that there is no new Divine Revelation and that all Divine Revelation ended with the last book of the Apocalypse and is contained in the Traditions of the Church. Anything of faith is old not new.
California Gov. Jerry Brown blamed climate change Sunday for the California wildfires, despite a complete lack of evidence — a day after President Donald Trump was widely criticized for blaming poor forest management. MORE
And she said that mothers should keep their babies up later in the evenings instead of coming home at 6pm and putting them to bed at 7.30.
‘Let them stay up much later,’ she advised. ’90 minutes a day is not enough to provide children with emotional security, regulate their emotions and buffer them from stress.’ MORE
Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections held Tuesday, with Jewish Congress members poised to take key leadership roles. Republicans looked to increase their majority in the Senate. MORE
Hopping off the trucks they hitchhiked on, hundreds of Central Americans chanted “Sí se pudo!” (“Yes we could!”) as they arrived in the small town of Sayula, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, on Nov. 2. MORE
Beware, Traditional Catholics. Satan is coming through the back door.
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, a society of apostolic life that celebrates the traditional Latin Mass, has seen significant growth in parishes over the past decade, fueled in large measure by Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 edict that expanded access to the old rite. MORE
