[Apologetics] 'Gay agenda' at the World Meeting of Families? Not at all, says Archdiocese of Philadelphia........ PLUS 16 MORE

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CATHOLIC NEWS: 'Gay agenda' at the World Meeting of Families? Not at all, says Archdiocese of Philadelphia........ PLUS 16 MORE
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   - 'Gay agenda' at the World Meeting of Families? Not at all, says Archdiocese of Philadelphia.....
   - 12 things you might not know about 'The Screwtape Letters'...
   - A man can't be a woman, and a woman can't be a man. We are not minds in meat suits.....
   - Bear wrongs patiently: A meditation on the fifth spiritual work of mercy.....
   - Who killed the contemporary Christian music industry?
   - Cardinal Pell's spokesperson slams 'outrageous' coverage on Australia's 60 Minutes...
   - A supernatural sign? Rare solar halo appears in the sky at Romero beatification.....
   - Can ambulance drivers get speeding tickets?
   - A tragedy in the Greek sense...
   - Pope Francis gets a white rose of his very own...
   - Anti-Catholic persecution in the U.S. is real, and it's likely to get worse.....
   - Laughing at the Devil...
   - 110 pictures of Middle Earth, drawn and painted by J.R.R. Tolkien himself...
   - U.S. woman to marry Swiss Guard in Rome; Pope Francis tells them to 'have a lot of children'...
   - Dostoevsky and the glory of guilt...
   - An ancient bishop rebukes the Emperor of Rome for crimes against life...
   - Pope Francis, between the Shadow Synod and a new direction...

| 'Gay agenda' at the World Meeting of Families? Not at all, says Archdiocese of Philadelphia.....Posted: In response to claims that a “homosexual activist” is acting as “gatekeeper” to exhibitors at the upcoming World Meeting of Families, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has said that nothing could be farther from the truth. “Recently, some confusion has arisen regarding who is responsible for determining eligibility for individuals and groups applying to become exhibitors at the World Meeting of Families Congress in September... |
| 12 things you might not know about 'The Screwtape Letters'...Posted: C.S. Lewis’s most popular non-Narnia novel is a delicious, perceptive treatise on the weaknesses of human nature. Here are 12 little-known facts about The Screwtape Letters, its development, and its enduring impact. |
| A man can't be a woman, and a woman can't be a man. We are not minds in meat suits.....Posted: Unless you’ve avoided every sort of news or entertainment source today, including but not limited to websites, social media, and the checkout lane at the grocery store, you have probably seen an image purporting to be a man, Bruce Jenner, dressed and Photoshopped (tm) and otherwise altered to look like a woman. I’m not going to link to the image... |
| Bear wrongs patiently: A meditation on the fifth spiritual work of mercy.....Posted: Here is perhaps the most revolutionary of the Spiritual works of mercy. It is the one tied most directly to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. To decide to bear wrongs patiently is nothing less than to declare a revolution and to wage a very paradoxical counteroffensive against this world and its economy of anger. There is a cycle of violence and retribution in which the devil seeks to engage us... |
| Who killed the contemporary Christian music industry?Posted: Derek Webb's old band, Caedmon's Call, was once the darling of the contemporary Christian music (CCM) industry. Their eponymous debut, released in 1996, sold over 250,000 copies, and their follow-up, 40 Acres, sold about 100,000 more. Caedmon's Call's live shows frequently sold out, and really broadened CCM's demographic... |
| Cardinal Pell's spokesperson slams 'outrageous' coverage on Australia's 60 Minutes...Posted: A television broadcast revisiting charges that Australian Cardinal George Pell mishandled abuse claims was "false and misleading" and "outrageous" in its coverage, a spokesperson for the cardinal said Sunday. "From his earliest actions as an archbishop, Cardinal Pell has taken a strong stand against child sexual abuse and put in place processes to enable complaints to be brought forward and independently investigated... |
| A supernatural sign? Rare solar halo appears in the sky at Romero beatification.....Posted: As the relics of Blessed Oscar Romero were brought out for veneration during his beatification Mass in San Salvador, the cloudy skies parted and a ring of light – known as a “solar halo” – appeared around the sun. “Honestly, I think this one of the most supernatural things I have ever experienced in my life,” Father Manuel Dorantes told CNA May 29... |
| Can ambulance drivers get speeding tickets?Posted: Subject to the same rules of the road as other drivers, with a few exceptions for emergencies, ambulances can be pulled over and ticketed for speeding and other traffic violations, although it is exceedingly rare. |
| A tragedy in the Greek sense...Posted: I last saw Don nearly forty years ago. We were on the veranda of a house at the top of the cliffs in Laguna Beach, watching the sunset and sipping fine California wine. Don was explaining how he had come to be fired from his job as a political science professor at his university. Ever since then I’ve considered his to be a story of how tragedy—in the proper Greek sense—can affect anyone... |
| Pope Francis gets a white rose of his very own...Posted: Visitors to the Vatican Gardens and the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo will soon enjoy the fragrance of roses. Two French rose growers have come together to cultivate a new variety of white rose, which they have named “Pope Franciscus” in honor of the pontiff. Croix Dominique and Jacques Ranchon, horticulturists from Bourg-Argenal in the Loire region... |
| Anti-Catholic persecution in the U.S. is real, and it's likely to get worse.....Posted: This new persecution currently has two prongs. One consists of pressuring individual religious believers to cooperate with public policies inimical to faith. The other prong is pressure targeted at religious groups and institutions to adapt their programs to the promotion of values hostile to the sponsors’ moral convictions. When and if the Supreme Court announces its discovery of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage... |
| Laughing at the Devil...Posted: Some years back, my kids discovered the work of the great genius Weird Al Yankovic. Weird Al, for them what don't know, is a musician who has graced the pop music world with something it richly deserves and badly needs: parody. Weird Al takes the self-absorbed world of yer garden variety rock/pop artiste and knocks it down with gusts of laughter... |
| 110 pictures of Middle Earth, drawn and painted by J.R.R. Tolkien himself...Posted: A few years ago, we featured J.R.R. Tolkien’s personal cover designs for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, a series of novels that justifiably made his name as a world-builder in prose (and occasional verse), but rather overshadowed his output as an illustrator. He didn’t just do covers for his own books, either. You can get a sense of the breadth of Tolkien’s visual art at the Tolkien Gateway’s gallery of over 100 images by Tolkien... |
| U.S. woman to marry Swiss Guard in Rome; Pope Francis tells them to 'have a lot of children'...Posted: She was 29 years old with a dream to see Italy before she turned 30. So Miranda Emde convinced her mother, Martha, to go with her, and off they went. In October 2013, they toured Rome, Milan, Venice and Assisi for three weeks. But Miranda fell in love with Rome. She went to Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica every day while she was there — and she didn’t want to leave... |
| Dostoevsky and the glory of guilt...Posted: There are only a very few authors whose works bear the power of changing the way the whole world is perceived by people. Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of those authors; and one of the ways that Dostoevsky has made his mark on human souls is his presentation of guilt. Not the feverish guilt of Raskolnikov associated with crime and punishment... |
| An ancient bishop rebukes the Emperor of Rome for crimes against life...Posted: I have begun a series on the blog that I am tagging the “Courage” series. (Our new blog format, to be unveiled soon, will feature tags at the bottom of each post.) I will be highlighting courageous persons and acts both from both Scripture and Church history. It’s going to take a lot of courage going forward. Bishops, priests... |
| Pope Francis, between the Shadow Synod and a new direction...Posted: The past week began with a sort of "shadow synod ," that is a gathering of members from the Swiss, French and Germany Bishops' Conferences dedicated to the issues to be discussed at the coming Synod of Bishops. Media representatives admitted to take part in the event were very few, and those few were told not to quote by name any of the speakers... |


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