The National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) has announced that Common Core architect David Coleman will keynote the associationâs annual convention next March in San Diego, Calif., raising anew concerns that the Catholic association remains devoted to the Common Core standards despite serious concerns about their impact on Catholic schools. This comes soon after the NCEAâs […]
Empty the Prisons Bill Now on Fast Track
We are witnessing a carefully orchestrated political and media campaign to pass the George Soros-backed Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (S.2123) on the grounds that it is âbipartisan.â But critics are calling it a soft-on-crime bill that will backfire on the Republicans who help pass it. A big hole in the congressional process […]
The Mystery of Pope Francis: Was There a Vatican Coup?
One thing that that has puzzled a lot of people since the selection of Pope Francis two years ago is how a left-leaning Pope could succeed two very serious conservative PopesâJohn Paul II and Benedict XVIâwho you would have thought had stacked the ranks of the Cardinals with clergy that would perpetuate their theological and […]
Watermelon Pope: Green on the Outside, Red Within
In his address to a joint meeting of Congress, Pope Francis delivered the latest installment of his ongoing environmental lecture series to the Westâreminding us yet again that the âenvironmental challengeâ called âclimate changeâ has âhuman rootsâ â a contentious hypothesis at best. The pope’s message echoed that of his recently published climate-change encyclical, where […]
Repent! Pope Francis lectures America
Francis opens last day of Washington visit with rebuke of congressional Republicans over lack of compassion for immigrants and refugees Francis lectures lawmakers about ‘defend[ing] human life at every stage of its development’ and ending the death penalty Subtle jab at gay marriage: ‘I cannot hide my concern for the family, which is threatened, perhaps […]
Pope Francis Arrives in U.S. for Historic First Visit
WASHINGTON (AP) â Pope Francis arrived Tuesday on the first visit of his life to the United States, bringing his âchurch of the poorâ to the worldâs wealthiest superpower and a country polarized over issues closest to his heart: immigration, social injustice and economic inequality. According a rare honor to the pontiff, President Barack Obama […]
Miami Priest to Pope Francis: Why Condemn Capitalism So Strongly, but Not Communism?
Prominent Cuban-American priest, Father Alberto CutiĂ©, questions Pope Francisâ apparently warm attitude towards the Castro dictatorship during his visit to Cuba this week, asking in a Miami Herald column, âWhy do you so strongly condemn capitalism ⊠but we never see an equally strong condemnation of atheist communism?â Writing for the Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald, […]
Is Francis Ready for a Confrontation at the Cuban Altar?
Catholic and international media are abuzz over Pope Francisâ trip to Cuba, the third consecutive pope to visit this island thoroughly destroyed by the two Castro brothers. The Castros have utterly ruined this onetime bastion of Roman Catholicism with a cruel, morally unconscionable Marxist-Leninist atheism. A dozen Hurricane Katrinas could not have generated the mass […]
AFTER THE DEBATE – MORNING INTELLIGENCE FOR LEADERS
THE BIG IDEA: SIMI VALLEY, Calif.âCarly Fiorina, who was stuck at the kidsâ table during the first debate, has emerged as the undisputed victor of the second. Sheâs a non-politician and a fighter in a moment when those qualities are in high demand by the Republican base. Sheâs the only woman running at a time […]
Obama wonât release 27 Iraqi Christian asylum seekers held in detention here for 6 months while continuing to flood U.S. cities with unscreened Muslims from Syria and Somalia
For the past six months, 27 Iraqi Christian asylum seekers fleeing the Islamic State (ISIS) have been locked up in an ICE detention center in Otay Mesa, CA, despite the fact that 20 of the 27 Chaldean Christians have American family members living in Southern California who are willing to sponsor them. WND Family members […]
Pope Warns of âGenocideâ As Persecution Of Christians Rises Worldwide
Christians may be the most persecuted group in the world, and their persecution is on the rise. As Islamic extremism takes hold and repressive governments step up their campaigns against Christianity, the Pope has been moved to warn of âa form of genocideâ, and for campaigners to speak out over âreligio-ethnic cleansing.â Organisations that monitor […]
WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE VATICAN?
This coming November, the Vaticanâs Pontifical Academy for Science is holding a workshop intended to figure out how to indoctrinate your children in the Sustainable Development Goals. This comes on the heels of the Vatican nuncio to the United Nations announcing âverbatimâ support for the SDGs, and after Catholic Relief Services president, Dr. Carolyn Woo […]
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party: Moonbeam and Mayors Descend on the Vatican
Vatican Abp. Sanchez Sorondo draws exclusively leftist mayors, politicians from around the world to save the planet, end slavery. Down another rabbit hole we tumble. California Governor Jerry âMoonbeamâ Brown and 8 Democratic U.S. Mayors descend on the Vatican today to worship at the altar of the new religion of environmentalism. The Vaticanâs latest selection […]
U.S. State Department Denies Visas for Persecuted Assyrian Christians
(Washington, DC)âThe U.S. State Department may have sent a signal to an Anglican bishop in Iraq that despite persecution and harassment from the terror group known as ISIS, Christians in that country will not find any support from the United States government. According to Faith J.H. McDonnell of Philos Project, the Rt. Rev. Julian M. […]
Bolivian President Insults Pope Francis Giving Him a Communist Crucifix
Not long after he arrived in Bolivia, Pope Francis was presented with a gift from the nationâs president â and the Catholic leader didnât seem appreciative. In video footage posted online Thursday, Bolivian President Evo Morales can be seen presenting the Pope with a crucifix thatâs shaped like the communist hammer and sickle. âNo esta […]
Why Catholics Should Oppose the Common Core
Forty-five states and over 100 Catholic dioceses have adopted the national Common Core Standards for K-12 English Language Arts and math. This happened quickly, without any debate. Public and Catholic school parents did not have notice as to what was happening. Very few state legislators, even those on education committees, knew what was happening.Uggs Black […]
Louisiana Bishop Counsels Civil Disobedience
Bishop Michael Jarrell of the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana issued a strong statement of condemnation of the Supreme Court’s decision ruling in favor of gay “marriage.” Let me state very plainly that no human court has the authority to change what God has written into the law of creation. This ruling is irreconcilable with the […]
Francis’ Enviro Text – The Boff Connection – Religion at the Service of Ecology
The purpose of Pope Francisâ Laudato Si is to promote âecological awareness,â âecological conversion,â and to advance responsible âecological citizenshipâ. Everything else in the document â everything else â is meant to serve this final goal. Even the most âCatholic partsâ of the document at the end â where there is mention of the Eucharist, […]
Supreme Court Decision On Marriage âA Tragic Errorâ Says President Of Catholic Bishopsâ Conference
WASHINGTONâThe U.S. Supreme Court decision, June 26, interpreting the U.S. Constitution to require all states to license and recognize same-sex âmarriageâ âis a tragic error that harms the common good and most vulnerable among us,â said Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The full statement […]
Infiltration of the Church Exposed!
Michael Hichborn of the Lenpanto Institute says the Roman Catholic Church has been infiltrated by Marxists and homosexuals. Hichborn has authored a PowerPoint presentation on high-level Vatican links to the World Social Forum, an international communist group. He says some key players around the pope are âin bed with the United Nations and the push […]
French climate change doubter was ‘uninvited’ from Vatican summit weeks before Pope declared global warming a man-made problem
Booked flight to Rome but was then told there was no space left for him A well-known climate change doubter almost made it to a key Vatican summit on the issue before his invitation to attend was withdrawn at the last minute, it was claimed last night. French writer Philippe de Larminat – who believes […]
Et Tu, Pontifex? Pope Francis Leaps Aboard âGlobal Warmingâ Bandwagon
 So the Popeâs long-awaited encyclical on âglobal warmingâ has been released to the media four days in advance of its official launch. A Vatican official has described this leak as âheinous,â but not as heinous, surely, as the damage this misbegotten document is going to do to the global economy, to the credibility of the […]
Climate Expert: Marxists, Global Warming Extremists Control Vatican
by Robert Wilde 13 Jun 2015 879 Lord Christopher Monckton, chief policy advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute and expert for the Heartland Institute, joined Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius XM Patriot Radio. The Economist called the Heartland Institute âthe worldâs most prominent think tank promoting skepticism about man-made climate change.â Monckton has […]
Retired NASA Scientists Takes on Pope
With the papal encyclical on climate change scheduled for a June 18 release, the liberal media can be expected to portray the Vatican document as a major step forward for the United Nations agenda of controlling and taxing the use of natural resources by governments and people. But a group of retired NASA scientists is […]
Obama boasts Obamacare is ârealityâ in U.S. even as Supreme Court ruling looms
President Barack Obama speaks at the Catholic Hospital Association Conference about healthcare reform, Tuesday, June 9, 2015, at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Weeks before a major Supreme Court ruling that could kneecap his signature achievement, President Obama defended his health overhaul Tuesday as an historic achievement that will lift […]
Catholic Children in Grave Danger: Common Core in Catholic Schools
To escape the Common Core nightmare, many parents are thinking about withdrawing their kids from public schools and enrolling them in Catholic Schools only to find out that Common Core is there, too! As a Catholic mom of four kids, I am working to get Common Core out of our Catholic Schools. My third grader […]
REAUTHORIZATION ESEA ALERT FOR CATHOLIC PARENTS
On February 23, 2015, the Most Reverend Archbishop George J. Lucas, Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska and Chairman of the Committee on Catholic Education of the USCCB, issued a letter to the United States House of Representatives. Bishop Lucas, in his official capacity, endorsed the Student Success Act. Go HERE to read the letter: http://edworkforce.house.gov/uploadedfiles/united_states_conference_of_catholic_bishops.pdf The […]