Please pray for peace in our country! Multiple reports and videos indicate Black Lives Matter protesters allegedly attacked Catholics praying near the Apotheosis of St. Louis statue in St. Louis, Mo. The King St. Louis IX of France monument depicts the saint who led the Seventh and Eighth Crusades. He...
Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco led a Holy Hour of Reparation on Saturday morning at the site of the destruction of the St. Junipero Serra statue. Vandals tore down and defaced the monument on June 19. The Act of Reparation included the Holy Rosary and Latin prayers of...
Please pray for peace in our world! Vandals desecrated a monument dedicated to Our Lady of Częstochowa in Breda, a city in the southern Netherlands. Catholics also consider this image the Black Madonna. Here’s a photo of the desecration below: The post reads, “The Black Madonna in Breda has...
Villanova University recently declared its support for June Pride Month via social media, contrary to its Catholic roots. Villanova describes itself as a “Catholic Augustinian community of higher education,” and “inspired by the life and teaching of Jesus Christ,” “grounded in the wisdom of the Catholic intellectual tradition and advances...
Please pray for our churches! Over the last several weeks, activists destroyed numerous statues across the country in response to the killing of George Floyd. Activists also tore down two statues of St. Junípero Serra in California over the weekend. Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King calls for the destruction...
Can Catholics support Pride Month? Chaldean Catholic Priest Fr. Simon Esshaki of San Diego, Calif. explains in an Instagram post why Catholics cannot support June LGBTQ Pride Month. He tells followers that Catholics are called to love all people, but we cannot support homosexual actions, as they are contrary to...
